Quotes By Author: Baruch Spinoza

“Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.”

“aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inimigos quanto sobre um único, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles não são menos fortes; ao contrário, são mais fortes.”

“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”

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

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”