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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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 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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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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