He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZASadness diminishes a man’s powers.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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