He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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