311 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

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

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.