The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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 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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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