Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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