Quotes by : Baruch Spinoza

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

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor....

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

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most....

There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections....

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent....

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is....