Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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