Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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