52 ordspråk av Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words
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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow
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