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Life Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
- True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
- In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
- We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from…
- The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must…
- Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
- A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
- 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 if hatred had not preceded it...
- Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
- From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea…
- Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause…
- 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…
- When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return.
- The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
- If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he…
- 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…
- He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the…
- If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other…
- Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards…
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle