The 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 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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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