Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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