He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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