He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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Reason is no match for passion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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