All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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 absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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