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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

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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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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
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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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Clear Emotion Lover Understand
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong

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