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Baruch Spinoza

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

Baruch Spinoza

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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.

Baruch Spinoza

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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

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

Baruch Spinoza

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

Baruch Spinoza

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Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Baruch Spinoza

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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.

Baruch Spinoza

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Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Baruch Spinoza

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

Baruch Spinoza

genius baruch spinoza

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Baruch Spinoza

genius baruch spinoza

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