Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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 who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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 so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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