I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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