The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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