I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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