Baruch Spinoza Quotes

“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.”