He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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