Quotes Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality...

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare....

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare....

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power....

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you ...

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself....

Desire is the essence of a man....

Desire is the very essence of man....

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand....

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we ...

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear....

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that s...

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science ...

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all thi...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward....

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entir...

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand...

I call him free who is led solely by reason....

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a dis...

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewai...

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at...

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either be...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained ...

If you want the present to be different from the past, study...

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud ...