The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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