Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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 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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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