Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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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 made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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