Baruch Spinoza

Quotes

• “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
• “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
• “Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”
• “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
• “He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”
• “Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”