If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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