Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhen a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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