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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 made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
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
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
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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Belong Man Nature Understand

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