Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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