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.
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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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