Quotes by
Baruch Spinoza |
1632-1677 , Dutch philosopher
Dutch Jewish philosopher, born Benedito de Espinosa, later Benedict de Spinoza. He was one of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal figures of the Enlightenment.His major work , “Ethics”, was published posthumously in 1677.
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Quotations
| • | I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. 9 |
| • | The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. 6 |
| • | What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. 6 |
| • | Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. 3 |
| • | I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. 3 |
| • | None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. 3 |
| • | I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. 2 |
| • | If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. 2 |
