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.
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 striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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