We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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