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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
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
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth

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