Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZABe 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.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZASelf-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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