Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.