He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAMinds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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