Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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