Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

"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."

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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."

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"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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