He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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