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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
... to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
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 (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
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 (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
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 (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
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 (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)