Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these and evil.
He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.