I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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.
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