The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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