The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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