If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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