I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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 by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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