Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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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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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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