Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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