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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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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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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.
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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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