Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZABe not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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 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 self-determination.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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