Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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