The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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