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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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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
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
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
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
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
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
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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
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
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy

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