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Men Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Desire is the essence of a man.
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
- Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
- 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…
- 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…
- A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance…
- Desire is the very essence of man
- Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of…
- Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify,…
- Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
- If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the…
- All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control…
- A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing…
- Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
- Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or…
- 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 may…
- It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who…
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more…
- We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that…
- But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of…
- True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
- It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a…
- 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…
- If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
- The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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