Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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 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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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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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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