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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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