All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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 more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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