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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
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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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
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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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth

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