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

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Desire Quotes, Mankind Quotes, Words Quotes

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine...

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine...

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...

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without...

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without...

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...

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity,...

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity,...

We feel and know that we are eternal

We feel and know that we are eternal

As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are...

As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are...

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent,...

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent,...

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...

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor...

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor...

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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

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

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

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Philosophy is concerned with the undermining and questioning of dogmas, whereas religion is all about...

Philosophy is concerned with the undermining and questioning of dogmas, whereas religion is all about...

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him...

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him...

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your...

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your...