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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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