Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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