There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear. Baruch Spinoza More Quotes by Baruch Spinoza More Quotes From Baruch Spinoza No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. Baruch Spinoza lament detest laughing No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion. Baruch Spinoza words-of-wisdom body doubt The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them. Baruch Spinoza overcoming faces men Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another. Baruch Spinoza free-man grateful men The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free. Baruch Spinoza freedom-of-speech government sound In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power. Baruch Spinoza communication evil law I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza understanding laughing men Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules. Baruch Spinoza understanding nature law The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things. Baruch Spinoza connections order ideas The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over. Baruch Spinoza judgment liberty real Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Baruch Spinoza fancy fame men Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic. Baruch Spinoza atheism miracle intelligent All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate Baruch Spinoza broken law men He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly. Baruch Spinoza anxiety honor order Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. Baruch Spinoza form emotion suffering I call him free who is led solely by reason. Baruch Spinoza atheism reason religion We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life. Baruch Spinoza anticipation and-love worry True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real. Baruch Spinoza gratitude real views Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action. Baruch Spinoza body limits mind In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Baruch Spinoza powerful men life
