The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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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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