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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
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
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Clear Emotion Lover Understand
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
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZA

God Lord Religion
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Belong Man Nature Understand
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
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Determination Freedom One Liner
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
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
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Emotion Man Master Prey
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
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Fear Hope Life

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