Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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