A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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