Baruch Spinoza quotes

Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. (Baruch Spinoza)
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. View quote
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Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. View quote
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Desire is the very essence of man. View quote
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. View quote
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. View quote
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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. View quote
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. View quote
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. (Baruch Spinoza)
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. View quote
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A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. View quote
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. View quote
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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. View quote
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. View quote
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. View quote
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. View quote
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. View quote
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. View quote
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. (Baruch Spinoza)
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. View quote
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. View quote
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We feel and know that we are eternal. View quote
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men. View quote
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