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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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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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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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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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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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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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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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