All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason is no match for passion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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