If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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