“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.”
Motivational
“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”
PowerAll Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Freedom“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”
Peace“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”
Power“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”
Alone“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”
Nature“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
Power“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Peace“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
Religion“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Peace“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
Jealousy“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
Alone“One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.”
Music“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Learning“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
Fear“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
Happiness“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.”
Nature“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
Beauty“Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.”
Nature“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
Happiness