Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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 call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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