The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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