Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZASadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAEmotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen 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.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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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