What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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Freedom is self-determination.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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