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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cease Effort Human Understand
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Fear Hope Life
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Determination Freedom One Liner
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Belong Man Nature Understand

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