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.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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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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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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