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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Philosophy Positive
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Fear Hope Life
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
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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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly

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