No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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