“Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates..."
― Benedict Spinoza |
“self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“I call him free who is led solely by reason.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“I care not for the girdings of superstition, for superstition is the bitter enemy of knowledge & true morality."
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them.
― Benedict Spinoza
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“The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion..."
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“A passion seizes to be a passion as soon as we form a clear idea of it.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“I realised that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save in so far as the mind was influenced by them,”
― Benedict Spinoza
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"He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
"..Men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Reason is no match for passion.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.”
― Benedict Spinoza |
“Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“The intellectual love of a thing consists in understanding its perfections.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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“Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.”
― Benedict Spinoza
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