He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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 mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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