What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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