There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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