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.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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