Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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