Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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