We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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