Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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 alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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