Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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