If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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