All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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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 everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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