The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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