He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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