Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZAGod is not He who is, but That which is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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