Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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