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Baruch Spinoza Quotes

"The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God""I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion""Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear""Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts""None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not""Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself""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""Nothing in nature is random A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge""God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things""The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak""In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause which is likewise determined by another cause and this last by another and so on to infinity""He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives, as far as he can, to repay hatred with love and nobleness""Happiness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself""The greatest pride or the greatest despair arises from love of fame""Man is a social animal""If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past""All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare""The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is""Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice""The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free"