I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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