Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Benedict de 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 Benedict de Spinoza
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
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.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
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Type:
Philosopher
Date of Birth:
1632-11-24
Year of Death:
1677
Nationality:
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