Baruch Spinoza Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Freedom is self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Self Determination

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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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• Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

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  Indulge Yourself, Healthy, Pleasure

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• the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

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  Men, Liberty, May

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• Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

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  Integrity, Ethics, Moral Ethics

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• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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  Philosophical, Firsts, Virtue

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• No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

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  Laughing, Detest, Lament

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• Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

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  Believe, Independent, Writing

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

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  Life, Hands, Hatred

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

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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.

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  Truth, Science, Ideas

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• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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  Happiness, Happy, Rewards

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• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

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  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

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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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• We feel and know that we are eternal.

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  Philosophical, Awareness, Immortality

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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  Sadness, Men, Diminish

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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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• Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

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  Hate, Ambition, Thinking

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• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

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  Philosophical, Passion, Emotion

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• In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

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  Mind, Wish, Lasts

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.82, Commodius Vicus

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• The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

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  Mind, Unions, Whole

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• Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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  Views, Goal, Finals

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