I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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