Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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