I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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