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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

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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 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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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