Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
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"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
Baruch Spinoza
"“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”"
Baruch Spinoza
"“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”"
Baruch Spinoza
"“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."
Baruch Spinoza
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
Baruch Spinoza
"Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand."
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."
Baruch Spinoza
"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
Baruch Spinoza
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
Baruch Spinoza
"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
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
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
Baruch Spinoza
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
Baruch Spinoza
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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."
Baruch Spinoza
"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
Baruch Spinoza
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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
"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
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