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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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