Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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