The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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 random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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