Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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