311 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

All is One (Nature, God)

Whatsoever is, is in God.

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

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted ; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.