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Baruch Spinoza Quotes


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

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
[Hope]

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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
[Goals]

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.
[Worry]

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
[Intellect]


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