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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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 striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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