Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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