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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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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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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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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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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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