Baruch Spinoza Quotes

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

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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 universal nuisance.

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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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 as a whole.

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