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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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.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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