Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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 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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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