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"47 Baruch Spinoza Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 November 1632. Died: 21 February 1677 | Philosopher |
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
AllThings Cause God Things
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear Hope NoFear NoHope
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Alone Consent Entire Free
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Aid Beyond Care Every
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Bad Deaf Good Indifferent
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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.

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confused
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Desire Essence Man
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Also Direct Fame Fancy
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

BeTheFirst First Flattery More
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Cannot Fear Hope Nor
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Abject Ambitious Believed Envious
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Despondency Greatest Ignorance Pride
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
Eternal Feel Know
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Actions Alone Determined Exists
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition Desire Power
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Indignant Understand Wax Weep
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Born Conception Evil Form
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Absurd Contrary Nature Reason
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Basis Endeavor First Only
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Intellect Same SameThing Thing
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Call Free Him Led
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Direction Life Reason True
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness Reward Virtue
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Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire Essence Man Very
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

AllThings Difficult Excellent Rare
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Itself Reward Virtue
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Does Effect Exists Follow
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Arising Highly Himself Man
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BeDifferent Different Past Present
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Accompanied Cause Idea Oneself
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Absence Based Character Peace
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Absolutely Arts Freedom Liberal
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Becoming Established How Know
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Capacity Had Happier Men
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Actions Hate Human HumanActions
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Attached Depends Happiness Love
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Desires Difficulty Govern Men
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Actions Ceaseless Effort Human
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Bad Cannot Civil Common
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Be 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.

Accepted Astonished BeTrue Because
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Become Come Easily He
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Conceived God Nothing Whatsoever
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature

AllThings Conditioned Contingent Divine
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Cannot Consequently Determined He
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Baruch Spinoza Quotes & Sayings