When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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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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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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