Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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