Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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