Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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