He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZABe 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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