We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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