Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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