All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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 offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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