Quotes by Baruch Spinoza Part 1

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.”
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.”
“Nothing in nature is by chance… Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”
“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
“Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.”

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