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

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Freedom Quotes

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more...

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more...

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine...

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine...

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn...

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn...

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate...

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate...

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor...

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no...

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire is the very essence of man.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.