The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.Baruch Spinoza
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.Baruch Spinoza
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.Baruch Spinoza
Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not also desire for the rest of humankind.Baruch Spinoza
The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.Baruch Spinoza
The aim of knowledge is not to show man how to use his freedom but how to live under a dictatorship.Baruch Spinoza
To hate is to be enslaved by passion.Baruch Spinoza
The highest virtue of the mind is intellectual love or love towards God.Baruch Spinoza
The true aim of our actions is not to achieve temporal and perishable goods, but to understand God and the link that unites the human mind with the nature of things.Baruch Spinoza
He, who has a true idea, knows at the same time that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.Baruch Spinoza
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.Baruch Spinoza