No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZAI would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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