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

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor...

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no...

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things

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

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

Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire is the very essence of man.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind,...

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind,...

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long...

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long...

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

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we...

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we...

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a...

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a...

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and...

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and...

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason...

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason...

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

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

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.