311 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Citizens are not born, but made.

No creo que cuestionar las cosas sea una enfermedad. La obediencia ciega sin cuestionamientos, es la enfermedad.

No nos gusta tal cosa porque sea buena, sino que nos parece buena porque nos gusta