We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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