Author: Baruch Spinoza

Quotes

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- 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

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

- Baruch Spinoza

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

- Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

- 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

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

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

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