Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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