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 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 The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but con...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. O...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Desire is the essence of a man.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please th...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) 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 (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA What is called vainglory is self-satisfaction, nourished by nothing but the good opinion of the mult...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA We feel and know that we are eternal.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Propositi...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Will and intellect are one and the same.
BARUCH (_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 Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please th...
BARUCH Will and intellect are one and the same.
BARUCH Desire is the essence of a man.
BARUCH All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. ...
BENEDICT SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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 During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But n...
BERNARD BARUCH We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH You talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the s...
BERNARD BARUCH There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
BERNARD BARUCH Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed ...
BERNARD BARUCH No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCH I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
BERNARD BARUCH If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarma...
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili...
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do ...
BERNARD BARUCH The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the...
BERNARD BARUCH In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
BERNARD BARUCH Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
BERNARD BARUCH When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to ...
BERNARD BARUCH Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
BERNARD BARUCH If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be ri...
BERNARD BARUCH Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage an...
BERNARD BARUCH A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
BERNARD BARUCH In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everythin...
BERNARD BARUCH The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use i...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before ...
BERNARD BARUCH Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own f...
BERNARD BARUCH Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism. People want to be treated as adults. They...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best ...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF This is a case where they did an exceptionally good job on the natural science and a really poor job...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't know if the learning is as systematic as it needs to be.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowa...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF I don't see anybody talking in terms of shame. I don't see any soul-searching.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF The medical experts' estimates suggest this is a bigger risk than anything else we are facing.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF