What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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