Quotes of Baruch Spinoza - somelinesforyou

“ Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ 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, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

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

- Baruch Spinoza

“ aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inimigos quanto sobre um único, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles não são menos fortes; ao contrário, são mais fortes. ”

- Baruch Spinoza
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