A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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 SPINOZAMen who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZAPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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 SPINOZABe 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 SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZASelf-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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