The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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