The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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 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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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