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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Freedom is self-determination.

Freedom is self-determination.

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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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
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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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Belong Man Nature Understand

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