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Famous Baruch Spinoza Quotes
“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
“Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.”
“We feel and know that we are eternal.”
“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature”
“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”