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Baruch Spinoza Quotes: The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
         

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.


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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.



The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.



If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.



No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.



Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.



Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.



The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.



Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.



The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.



I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.





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