Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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 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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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