Reason is no match for passion.
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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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 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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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