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Quotes By Benedict Spinoza

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Benedict Spinoza

Communication, Happiness, Listening, Speech

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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Benedict Spinoza

Character, Conflict, Peace, Strength

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Benedict Spinoza

Freedom, Learning

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Desire is the essence of a man.

Benedict Spinoza

Desire

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Hana, Hawaii, Maui

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Benedict Spinoza

Education, Life, Time

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Man is a social animal.

Benedict Spinoza

Communication

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Glacier National Park

Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Benedict Spinoza

Pride, Self, Thinking

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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Benedict Spinoza

Communication, Happiness, Power, Speech

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Bandon, Face Rock, Oregon

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

Benedict Spinoza

Knowledge, Truth

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Benedict Spinoza

Action, Thinking

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The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Benedict Spinoza

Life

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Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Benedict Spinoza

Honor

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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Benedict Spinoza

Self

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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.

Benedict Spinoza

Character, Reputation

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Benedict Spinoza

Fear, Hope

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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Benedict Spinoza

Awareness, Perception, Self

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Valley of Fire State Park

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

Benedict Spinoza

Peace

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Hana, Hawaii, Maui

All excellent things are difficult as they are rare.

Benedict Spinoza

Excellence

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Death Valley National Park

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

Benedict Spinoza

Fear, Hope

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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Benedict Spinoza

Imagination, Perception

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Valley of Fire State Park

Desire is the very essence of man.

Benedict Spinoza

Desire

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