Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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