The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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