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.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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 have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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