Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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