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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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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.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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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.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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