We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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