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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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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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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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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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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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