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Baruch Spinoza Quote - 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.

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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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Be 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.
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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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