Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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