In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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