Spinoza Quote by Baruch Spinoza

“Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what…

— Saul Bellow

“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza 's Amor…

— Albert Einstein

“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“And, like Buddha, Spinoza is often dismissed as a mere seeker of tranquillity – but what he valued most was joy, which he defined…

— Michael Foley

“Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared…

— Michael Greenberg

“The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We may not have the power to change the past, but we can change how the past influences our present state of being.”

— Troy Hadeed

“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and…

— Blaise Pascal

“It is history and as such it is good for teachings only, it cannot change the future unless you dwell on it, unless you…

— M.J. Webb

“We live in the present all the time and the past does not matter anymore. Only if we can understand this in the past,…

— Q. M. Sidd

“The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.”

— George R.R. Martin