Quotes by : Baruch Spinoza

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free....

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural....

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you....

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions....

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand....

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.