Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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