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.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason is no match for passion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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 alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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