If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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 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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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