What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason is no match for passion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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