Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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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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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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