“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: science
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: love
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
— Baruch Spinoza
Author: Baruch Spinoza
Category: happiness
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
— Baruch Spinoza
Author: Baruch Spinoza
Category: freedom
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The highest activity a human being can
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: learning
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: power
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I would warn you that I do
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: beauty
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I do not know how to teach
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: religion
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For peace is not mere absence of
“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: war
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There is no hope unmingled with fear,
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: hope
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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Category: motivational
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