Top 47 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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

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

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

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.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.