The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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