He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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