Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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