Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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 more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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