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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
To understand something is to be delivered of it (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.] (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
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. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
[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. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature’s order following necessarily from her eternal laws. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind. (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Happiness is a virtue, not it's reward (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
All noble things are as difficult as they are rare (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
There is no Hope without Fear, and no Fear without Hope (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Minds are conquered not by arms, but by love and magnanimity (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)