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Baruch Spinoza Quote - In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
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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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
I 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.
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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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