Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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