Tag: Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch Spinoza
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza