I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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