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Baruch Spinoza Quote - I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
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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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom One Liner Reason
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand

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