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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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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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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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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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