Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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