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Optical Instrument Maker Inspirational Quotes (130)

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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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[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
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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
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
Baruch Spinoza
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
Baruch Spinoza
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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
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
Baruch Spinoza
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
Baruch Spinoza
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
Baruch Spinoza
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
Baruch Spinoza
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
Baruch Spinoza
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
Baruch Spinoza
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