“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The purpose of the state is really freedom.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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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.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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