Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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