He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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