We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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 so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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 random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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