There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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