The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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