Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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