I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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