Baruch Spinoza Quotes

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• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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  Philosophical, Learning, Past

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• Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

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  Stronger, Overcoming, Emotion

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• Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

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  Life, Nature, Chance

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• What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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  Silence, Peter

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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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  Inspirational, Education, Understanding

  "Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists" by Edward Wayne Younkins, Lexington Books, (p. 83), 2008.

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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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  Giving Up, Real, Struggle

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• No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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  Two Sides, Matter, I've Learned

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• The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

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  Truth, Government, Political

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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

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  Men, Law, And Love

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• Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

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  Believe, Men, Causes

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.99, Commodius Vicus

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• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

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  Wisdom, Understanding, Intuition

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

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  Thinking, Purpose, Lips

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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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  Communication, Philosophical, Men

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• God is not He who is, but That which is.

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• Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

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  Inspirational, Desire

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• When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

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  Men, Emotion, Prey

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

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• To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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• He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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  Absurdity

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

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  Fighting, Men, Deception

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• He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

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  Law, Liberty, Vices

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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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  Love, Emotional, Emotion

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• Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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  Life, Mind, Force

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

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  Superstitions

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1670.

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• He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

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  Ideas, True And False, Adequate

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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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  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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