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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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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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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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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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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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