Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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