All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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