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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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 made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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