Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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