In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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