He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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