God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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