Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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