The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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