I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. ...
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things...
BENEDICT SPINOZA If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
BENEDICT SPINOZA All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Desire is the essence of a man.
BENEDICT SPINOZA He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BENEDICT SPINOZA I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. O...
BENEDICT SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BENEDICT SPINOZA We feel and know that we are eternal.
BENEDICT DE SPINOZA Desire is the very essence of man.
BENEDICT DE SPINOZA Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to...
SPINOZA Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a part...
BARUCH SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BARUCH SPINOZA Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ...
BARUCH SPINOZA I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH SPINOZA We feel and know that we are eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZA Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
BARUCH SPINOZA I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...
BARUCH SPINOZA Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please th...
BARUCH SPINOZA I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa...
BARUCH SPINOZA One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to th...
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...
BARUCH SPINOZA I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. O...
BARUCH SPINOZA All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ...
BARUCH SPINOZA For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...
BARUCH SPINOZA For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
BARUCH SPINOZA To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is in...
BARUCH SPINOZA Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
BARUCH SPINOZA The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZA All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to...
BARUCH SPINOZA The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ...
BARUCH SPINOZA Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BARUCH SPINOZA For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...
BARUCH SPINOZA No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands...
BARUCH SPINOZA The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
BARUCH SPINOZA If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi...
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because w...
BARUCH SPINOZA All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, ...
BARUCH SPINOZA I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as...
BARUCH SPINOZA God is a thing that thinks.
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZA Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA True virtue is life under the direction of reason
BARUCH SPINOZA If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
BARUCH SPINOZA Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absu...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
BARUCH SPINOZA Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA We feel and know that we are eternal
BARUCH SPINOZA Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause
BARUCH SPINOZA God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things
BARUCH SPINOZA Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA Desire is the very essence of man
BARUCH SPINOZA I call him free who is led solely by reason
BARUCH SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH SPINOZA Sein, was wir sind, und werden, was wir werden können, das ist das Ziel des Lebens.
BARUCH SPINOZA All noble things are as difficult as they are rare
BARUCH SPINOZA Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common...
BARUCH SPINOZA On ne saurait rester inactif si on est menacé de destruction.
BARUCH SPINOZA Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common...
BARUCH SPINOZA Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf
BARUCH SPINOZA He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
BARUCH SPINOZA I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
BARUCH SPINOZA If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians...
BARUCH SPINOZA Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow
BARUCH SPINOZA God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
BARUCH SPINOZA The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...
BARUCH SPINOZA whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
BARUCH SPINOZA The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a g...
BARUCH SPINOZA These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character rema...
BARUCH SPINOZA Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive ...
BARUCH SPINOZA By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in
BARUCH SPINOZA Les stoïciens ont voulu soutenir que nos passions dépendent entièrement de notre volonté, et que...
BARUCH SPINOZA The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
BARUCH SPINOZA The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body
BARUCH SPINOZA By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of...
BARUCH SPINOZA For though men be ignorant, yet they are men
BARUCH SPINOZA men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessaril...
BARUCH SPINOZA He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth o...
BARUCH SPINOZA Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the...
BARUCH SPINOZA Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according ...
BARUCH SPINOZA A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of l...
BARUCH SPINOZA Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
BARUCH SPINOZA Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition
BARUCH SPINOZA Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey t...
BARUCH SPINOZA The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, n...
BARUCH SPINOZA No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And,...
BARUCH SPINOZA Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the...
BARUCH SPINOZA A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but o...
BARUCH SPINOZA We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture o...
BARUCH SPINOZA It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food...
BARUCH SPINOZA I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy,...
BARUCH SPINOZA Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are c...
BARUCH SPINOZA Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
BARUCH SPINOZA Desire is the very essence of man.
BARUCH SPINOZA So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; ...
BARUCH SPINOZA Desire is the essence of a man.
BARUCH SPINOZA Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
BARUCH SPINOZA Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
BARUCH SPINOZA True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
BARUCH SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH SPINOZA I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute ...
DIRK BENEDICT There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not e...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone i...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap y...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorro...
DIRK BENEDICT I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with inter...
DIRK BENEDICT Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Christianity is always called to seek justice, but it bears within the impulse of love, that goes be...
BENEDICT XVI Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental...
BENEDICT XVI This unbounded and almost incomprehensible love of God for man shows to what point the human person ...
BENEDICT XVI To welcome the Redeemer in his life is for man a source of profound joy, a joy that can give peace e...
BENEDICT XVI The service that may be offered to the faithful and non-Christian spouses who are going through diff...
BENEDICT XVI These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the trage...
BENEDICT XVI I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of our concerns the spread of terr...
BENEDICT XVI These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America...
BENEDICT XVI A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the...
BENEDICT XVI Just as the life of Jesus, in his obedience and dedication to the Father, is a living parable of the...
BENEDICT XVI He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody.
BENEDICT LUCCHESI He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI Merck has been extremely good to me over the years,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI [The researcher was warning that] you can't just give this to anybody, ... You have to identify peop...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI They don't mind killing patients,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI They are trying to tell the leadership (about the risks) before they go out and launch this drug to ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI I don't know that I owe them an apology,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI Based on the science, there's every reason to believe that a single dose, multiple doses, whatever, ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seam...
BENEDICT ARNOLD Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any f...
BENEDICT ARNOLD If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...
BENEDICT ARNOLD Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our A...
BENEDICT ARNOLD I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a d...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very se...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or bet...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' a...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
RUTH BENEDICT I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta...
DIRK BENEDICT Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
DIRK BENEDICT It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don&#...
DIRK BENEDICT Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don&#...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, ...
BENEDICT WONG I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life'...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH [on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a str...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can de...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm j...
BENEDICT WONG The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha...
RUTH BENEDICT I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very norm...
DIRK BENEDICT