“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.”
― Spinoza: The Letters
― Spinoza: The Letters
“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.”
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“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”
― Theological-Political Treatise
― Theological-Political Treatise
“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
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