In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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