Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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