The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhen a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA