Reason is no match for passion.
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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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