Freedom Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

11 Freedom quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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Spinoza’s rationalist lens casts liberty in terms of necessity and understanding. This brief selection of eleven passages lets you see how his 17th‑century logic still speaks to the idea of free will.

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Freedom is self-determination.

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

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

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the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man…

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

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The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they…

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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...…

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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions…

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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives…

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“men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the…

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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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