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

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand...

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand...

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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,...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

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

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

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...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

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...

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,...

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

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

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

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the...

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the...

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

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...

Desire is the very essence of man

Desire is the very essence of man

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and...

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and...