The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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