God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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