The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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