I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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