3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza 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.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza 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.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
