87 result(s) for Baruch Spinoza Quotes.
"The truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
"Will cannot be free, only God is free."
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
"The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through clarity of thought and act."
"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you want, but to have the power to do what is right."
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"The highest perfection of human life consists in having a clear and distinct knowledge of all things that the mind is capable of understanding."
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; nor do we rejoice in happiness because we restrain our lusts; but on the contrary, because we rejoice in it, therefore are we able to restrain them."
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
"The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing."
"Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love."
"The highest virtue a person can have is not in holding back against people, but in understanding them."
"Peace is not merely a lack of war, it is mutual trust and good nature among people."
"The beautiful plans of you can be achieved if you first understand the inevitable."
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for a society to flourish. Without it, there can be no progress."
"To overlook the value of life is to be cruel to oneself, as life in its essence is considered good."
"True wisdom is in knowing how little we truly know."
"The goal of life is to live in harmony with nature and reason."
"To understand is to be set free."
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"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts."
"I can clearly understand that so long as we are under the control of emotions we are necessarily liable to be affected by external causes."
"The highest excellence that philosophy can achieve is the temper of welljudged tranquillity, patient waiting upon universal truth."
"Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge."
"If men were born free, they would form no concept of good and evil so long as they were free."
"Ultimate satisfaction lies not in understanding the abstract truths of the universe but in understanding what you can do within reality."
"Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand."
"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
"The mind is determined to this or that choice by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity."
"I would warn you to give up your desire for knowledge on all sides, for real knowledge emerges only when we cease to cling to our knowledge."
"The highest virtue is to never be perturbed by silence or agreement."
"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is."
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power."
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"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them."
"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
"The more we understand things, the more they are in harmony with the order of nature."
"The highest good is not the furtherance of our own advantage, but the common good of all."
"The greatest secret of a happy life is the continuous progress towards perfection."
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice."
"Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; nor do we rejoice because we control our lusts, but, on the contrary, because we do rejoice, we are able to control them."
"Those who are patient in all things are the most like God."
"Man is a social animal, so he likes to form societies which please people. But when the society is adverse to happiness, people leave it."
"We should act in such a way that what is true can be verified to be so."
"The end of the state is really the security and freedom of each individual."
"Hatred cannot be good, nor can anger be good, nor can envy be good, nor cruelty be good."
"A free person thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life."
"Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause."
"The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure."
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life."
"Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts."
"The highest good is a mind that despises the objects of ambition, and is filled with an insatiable desire for the things of the mind."
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
"Mind is nothing but an idea. Reason, on the other hand, is not concerned with singular things, but looks at the whole universe in a comprehensive aspect."
"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
"The endeavor to realize freedom can be detected in the praise of virtue."
"Most of those who throw themselves eagerly into partisan strife may be right in what they are affirming, but their feelings are certainly not virtuous."
"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is meditation, not on death, but on life."
"Truth is its own reward; for it is perfect and invincible."
"Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam."
"The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition which is really distinct."
"If you would be a good reader, read with that single mind which must be concentrated on the book."
"Will is not connection between volition and action, but something that precedes both."
"Peace is not merely a state of rest, but also a state of progress."
"Man is led into error not by the things he says and does, but by the things others say and do about him."
"Whatsoever we understand under the figure of eternity only derives its efficacy from our understanding it as necessary."
"Desire is the very essence of man."
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
"The life of the mind is far greater than the life of action."
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
"Freedom is absolutely necessary, and only requires that we know our destiny and our limitations."
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
"The more clearly a man understands, the greater his power to act."
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
"Peace and contentment are not dependent on the length of one’s life, but non-agitation of the soul."
"The fortunate is the one who attains the eternal release of his soul."
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