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Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Dutch - Philosopher | November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677

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

God Things All Things Cause

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

God Nothing Without Whatsoever

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Love Happiness Quality Object Which

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Confidence Justice Peace War Mind

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Men World Speak Silent Same Would

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Hate Laugh Understand Human Actions

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Good Music Time Bad Deaf Same

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Religion Philosophy Know Teach How

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Life Direction True Virtue Reason

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Humble Jealousy Ambitious Who Most

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Nature Universe Nothing Divine Exist

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness Reward Virtue

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