Quotes Baruch Spinoza

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, ...

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish ...

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow...

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are co...

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, an...

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of i...

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of m...

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on stren...

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly o...

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of ones...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a ci...

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so...

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of vi...

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the grea...

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning fo...

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to b...

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled ...

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usua...

True virtue is life under the direction of reason....

We feel and know that we are eternal....

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and ...

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or...

Will and intellect are one and the same thing....

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmi...