Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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