Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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