Baruch Spinoza Quotes

• A free man thinks of nothing less than of death and his wisdom is a meditation. Not on death but on life.
• We feel and know that we are eternal.
• The world would be much happier if men were as fully able to keep silence as they are to speak.
• Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.
• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
• The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
• Everything excellent is a difficult as it is rare.
• The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
• Desire is the essence of a man.
• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
• As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occuren.
• When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
• Those who cannot manage themselves and their private affairs will far less be capable of caring for the public interest.