When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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 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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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