Baruch Spinoza Quotes

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
-Baruch Spinoza in Philosophy quotes.

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
-Baruch Spinoza

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
-Baruch Spinoza in Happiness quotes.

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
-Baruch Spinoza in Happiness quotes.

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
-Baruch Spinoza in Freedom quotes.

"The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition."
-Baruch Spinoza

"The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary."
-Baruch Spinoza

"Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws."
-Baruch Spinoza

"He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return."
-Baruch Spinoza

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
-Baruch Spinoza

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
-Baruch Spinoza

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts."
-Baruch Spinoza