The purpose of the state is really freedom.
– Baruch Spinoza
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- If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred. – Baruch Spinoza
- Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. – Baruch Spinoza
- He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived. – Baruch Spinoza
- The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things – Baruch Spinoza
- The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body – Baruch Spinoza
- I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them. – Baruch Spinoza
- For though men be ignorant, yet they are men – Baruch Spinoza
- Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. – Baruch Spinoza
- When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. – Baruch Spinoza
- I call him free who is led solely by reason. – Baruch Spinoza
- Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist. – Baruch Spinoza
- Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition – Baruch Spinoza
- those, who are believed to be most self-”abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious – Baruch Spinoza
- Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. – Baruch Spinoza
- I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza
- There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
- My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
- Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! – Cupideros
- Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy. – RVM
- Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy.- RVM – RVM
- Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. – Brennan Manning
- Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom. – DeBorrah K Ogans
- We can’t have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds. – Jean Lee Latham
- Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. – James Truslow Adams
- There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life. – Debasish Mridha
- True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin. – Billy Graham
- Crime must be brought under control… Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all. – Nelson Mandela
- The purpose of a purpose is a purpose – Thabiso Monkoe
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose – Thabiso Monkoe
- When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. – Christopher Hitchens
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Bernard M Baruch
- The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference. – Edmund Burke
- -‹Many times your emotional feel-good state or frustrated state is woven into dreams with the use of picture-metaphors. – Abhijit Naskar
- State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that. – Justin K McFarlane Beau