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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Government, Political

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

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  Silence, Peter

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Virtue

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• He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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  Return, God Love, Should

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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

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  Philosophy, Views, Religion

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• Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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  Sadness, Men, Diminish

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• [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

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  Running, Ignorance, Way

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