The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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