No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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