Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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