Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

“Most of those who have written about the Affects, and mens way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed...”

“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human a...”

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are ab...”

“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”

“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”

“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”

“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...”

“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall...”

“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

“aquele que quer responder s injrias com o dio vive na tristeza ou na mgoa, aquele que quer vencer o dio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande nmero de inimigos q...”

“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 friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond...”

“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 in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impio...”

“Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The purpose of the state is really freedom.”

“He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.”

“The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things”