Peace Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

10 Peace quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza’s ten short reflections on peace blend rational thought with a hint of metaphysical wonder, offering a compact yet profound perspective.

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

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for…

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“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”

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

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The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they…

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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the…

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

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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They…

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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

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

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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray…

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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard…

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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more…

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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by…

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will…

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

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