I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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