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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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