Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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