Baruch Spinoza Quotes

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitio...

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates....

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of nat...

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture o...

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy,...

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food...

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas inv...

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, l...

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. ...

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is in...

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to f...

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

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ...

Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the...

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth o...

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the...

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

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

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfec...

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

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessaril...

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there i...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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

The formation of society serves not only for defensive purposes, but is also very useful, and, indee...

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...

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

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. O...

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ...

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to th...

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matt...

It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the W...

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians...

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor...

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so fa...

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what y...

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols o...

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; s...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vence...