What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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