Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAMinds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
-
-
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Reason is no match for passion.
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 -
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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 -
God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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 -
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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 absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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 -
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA