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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
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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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
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
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Need Want

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