In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
-
-
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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 -
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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 -
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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 -
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA