Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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