If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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