I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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