Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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