No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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