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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See

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