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

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza

Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza

Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza

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


Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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.
Baruch Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch Spinoza

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

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