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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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