No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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