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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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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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