Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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