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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZA

God Lord Religion
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Different Inspirational Past Present Study
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly

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