Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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