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.
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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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 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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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