Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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