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 SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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