Do not weep. Do not wax indignant.Understand.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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 “Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”
 
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231 quotes from Baruch Spinoza: 'The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.', '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.', and 'I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.'

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