God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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