Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand…

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason…

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion…

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow…

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

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent…

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from…

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and…

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of…

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind…

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity…

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate…

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power…

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward…

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear…