Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen 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.
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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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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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