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.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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 call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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