Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our 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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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 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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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