Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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