He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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