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.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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 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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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, 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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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