Baruch Spinoza Quotes

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

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.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...