If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
-
-
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
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 above everything distressing.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZA