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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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.
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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
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
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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