He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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