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Baruch Spinoza Quote - If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
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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