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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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