The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our 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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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