God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZASadness diminishes a man’s powers.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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 more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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