Baruch Spinoza

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?