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

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Freedom Quotes, Learning Quotes, Understanding Quotes

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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...

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that...

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

Desire is the essence of a man.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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...

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by...

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Desire is the very essence of man

Desire is the very essence of man

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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...

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.