Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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