“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
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A Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza>Wikipedia</a>).
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“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
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“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”
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“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
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“Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.”
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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 alone.”
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“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”
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“I call him free who is led solely by reason.”
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“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”
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