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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Crime Government Opinion Thought
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
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
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
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
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
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
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

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