I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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