The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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