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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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