He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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