Baruch Spinoza - Actions Quotes

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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 have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

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I refer those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance, sobriety, and presence of mind in danger, etc., are species of courage; but modesty, clemency, etc., are species of nobility.

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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads — Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

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