Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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