He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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