Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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