All Baruch Spinoza Quotes
- Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. Care
- What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. Inspirational
- The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. Despondency
- Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. Action
- Desire is the essence of a man. Desire
- He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost… Acute
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. Affair
- What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. Continuous
- We feel and know that we are eternal. Awareness
- Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause. Accompanied
- The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. Endeavor
- Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. Abilities
- He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. Arouse
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which… All
- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… Adore
- Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. Atheism
- Let unswerving integrity be your watchword. Ethics
- I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature Control
- Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. Ambition
- Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. Absence
- True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Direction
- A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… Among
- Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… All
- No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally… Accustomed
- He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of… Concerning