The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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