Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation 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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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