He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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