Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our 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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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