If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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