The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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