Baruch Spinoza Quotes:
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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.
Baruch Spinoza
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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
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.
Baruch Spinoza
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch Spinoza