He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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