Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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• Baruch Spinoza:

  I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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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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  All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached

• Baruch Spinoza:

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• Baruch Spinoza:

  The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand

• Baruch Spinoza:

  I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to u

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by commo

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease t

• Baruch Spinoza:

  For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposi