I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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 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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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