Baruch Spinoza Quotes Page 2

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure... you are above everything distressing.”

“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”

“Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.”

“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.”

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

“Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust.”

“Will and intellect are one and the same thing.”

“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”

“By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.”

“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”

“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.”

“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.”

“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”

“Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition.”

“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men.”

“The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.”

“The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body.”

“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”