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Baruch Spinoza Quote - 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.

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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak

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