The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZASadness diminishes a man’s powers.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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