The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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