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Freedom is self-determination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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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 who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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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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[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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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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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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