Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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