What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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