Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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