Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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