The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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