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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom One Liner Reason
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
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
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Belong Man Nature Understand
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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 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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