Author: Baruch Spinoza

Quotes

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

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

- 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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

- 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

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

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

- 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

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