Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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