Quotes By Baruch Spinoza

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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.

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.