311 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.