Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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 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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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