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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
—Baruch Spinoza
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
—Spinoza
“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”
—Baruch Spinoza