The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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 have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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