A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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