Baruch Spinoza Quotes

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Baruch Spinoza

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : November 24, 1632

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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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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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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Desire is the essence of a man.

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

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

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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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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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Desire is the very essence of man.

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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I call him free who is led solely by reason.

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

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