In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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