In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of 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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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 Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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