50+ Baruch Spinoza (Dutch philosopher)

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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Belong Man Nature Understand
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
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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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
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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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
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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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth

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