Diminish Quote by Baruch Spinoza Download Open image “Sadness diminishes a man's powers” — Baruch Spinoza ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diminish Men Sadness
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness... — Katherine Hannigan Copy Share Image
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger. — Gackt Copy Share Image
“I feel each of the things you mention, Sadeas,” Dalinar said, eyes forward. “But I don’t always let them out. A man’s emotions are… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none. — Abraham A. Ribicoff Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
