Baruch Spinoza on happiness
Baruch Spinoza51 quotes“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
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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.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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