In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

Baruch Spinoza
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  1. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

  2. I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

  3. 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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