Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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