If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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