Quotes by "Baruch Spinoza"

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inimigos quanto sobre um único, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles não são menos fortes; ao contrário, são mais fortes.

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.