What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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 so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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