Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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