Baruch Spinoza Quotes & Sayings
49 most famous Baruch Spinoza quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
“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.”
“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”
“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”
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