The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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