Baruch Spinoza Quotes

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• The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  Baruch Spinoza

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Two Sides, Matter, I've Learned

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Stronger, Overcoming, Emotion

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Giving Up, Real, Struggle

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

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  Silence, Peter

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Government, Political

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Nature, Chance

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Philosophical, Men

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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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

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

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• To understand something is to be delivered of it.

  Baruch Spinoza

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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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• He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  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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• The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Love, Emotional, Emotion

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Mind, Force

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

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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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  Wisdom, Philosophical, Effort

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• Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Environment

  "Theological-Political Treatise " by Baruch Spinoza, (p. 92), 1670.

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• Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hands, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.129, Commodius Vicus

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• Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophy, Views, Religion

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