God is not He who is, but That which 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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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