Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
-
-
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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 -
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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 -
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