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

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.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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...

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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...

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...

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...

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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

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

We feel and know that we are eternal

We feel and know that we are eternal

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our...

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our...

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

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,...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

Desire is the very essence of man

Desire is the very essence of man

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...

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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,...

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...