I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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