All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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