He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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