We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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