“ Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. ”
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
