Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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