Baruch Spinoza Quotes

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

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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 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Absurdity

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

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• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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  Happiness, Philosophical, Acceptance

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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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• 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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• 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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• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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  Reality, Men, Nuisance

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Prop. 30: Note), 1677.

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• Freedom is self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Self Determination

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• Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

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  Littles, Satisfied, Ifs

  "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant, (p. 176), 1933.

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• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

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  Life, Happiness, Insightful

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• Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

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  Needs, Use, Wealth

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