I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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