Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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 alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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