Author: Baruch Spinoza

Quotes

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

- Baruch Spinoza

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.

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.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

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

- Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

- Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

- Baruch Spinoza

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.

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.

- Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

- Baruch Spinoza

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

- Baruch Spinoza

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