Civil State Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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Baruch Spinoza has 174 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
• What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself…
• Desire is the essence of a man.
• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his…
• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
• We feel and know that we are eternal.
• Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

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