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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
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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Belong Man Nature Understand
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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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