If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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