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.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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