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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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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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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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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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