I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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 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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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