Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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Desire is the essence of a man.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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...

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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.

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...

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We feel and know that we are eternal

We feel and know that we are eternal

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...

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...

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

Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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...

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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 call him free who is led solely by reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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.