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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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