Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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