Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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