I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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A 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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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