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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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