Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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 have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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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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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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