Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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