Best Quotes by Baruch Spinoza (Top 10)
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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 clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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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.
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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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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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