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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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