"Desire is the very essence of man."
Baruch Spinoza
"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
Baruch Spinoza
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
Baruch Spinoza
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
Baruch Spinoza
"Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
Baruch Spinoza
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
Baruch Spinoza
"Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself."
Baruch Spinoza
"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
Baruch Spinoza
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Baruch Spinoza
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
Baruch Spinoza
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Baruch Spinoza
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
Baruch Spinoza
