In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZAEmotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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