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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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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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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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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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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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