What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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