Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza
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More Quotes By Baruch Spinoza
  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.

  4. The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

  5. Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

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