The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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