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Baruch Spinoza - From the Change category:
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Complaining category:
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Desire category:
Desire is the very essence of man. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Excellence category:
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Fame category:
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Freedom category:
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Goodness category:
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Happiness category:
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Hope category:
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Humanity category:
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Ideas category:
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. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Imagination category:
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. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Immortality category:
We feel and know that we are eternal. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Immortality category:
We feel and know that we are eternal. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Impossibilities category:
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Influence category:
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Love category:
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Nature category:
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Peace category:
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Philosophy category:
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Religion category:
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Silence category:
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Struggle category:
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. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Theory category:
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Thought category:
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Truth category:
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Understanding category:
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Understanding category:
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Universe category:
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. (Baruch Spinoza)
Baruch Spinoza - From the Universe category:
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. (Baruch Spinoza)
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