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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Need Want
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
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
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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Belong Man Nature Understand
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
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
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad

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