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.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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