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.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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