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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
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
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
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
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Crime Government Opinion Thought
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
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
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
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
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Belong Man Nature Understand
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
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
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
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
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
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
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True

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