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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom One Liner Reason
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
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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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Need Want
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
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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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science

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