Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our 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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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