Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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