“Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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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.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Will and intellect are one and the same thing.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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"Men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden."
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause"
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“Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“By reality and perfection I mean the same thing.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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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.
― Benedict Spinoza |
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it. ”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Every person should embrace those dogmas that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens.
― Benedict Spinoza |
“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“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.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion.."
― Benedict Spinoza
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“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink"
― Benedict Spinoza
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