Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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