Author: Baruch Spinoza

Quotes

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

- 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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

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

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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