The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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 who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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