Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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