The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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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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