Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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