Author: Baruch Spinoza

Quotes

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

- 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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

- 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

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

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

- Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

- Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

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