You have subscribed to: Remember that you can always manage your preferences or unsubscribe through the link at the foot of each newsletter. Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare. ~ (Baruch Spinoza). Sign up now and you'll get this free game set. Do not weep; do not wax indignant. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. "Emotional distress and unhappiness have their origin mostly in excessive love toward a thing subject to considerable instability. Baruch Spinoza. The free person never acts with deceit, but always with good faith. Spinoza is not only known for his work, 'Ethics', but he's also known as a philosopher who lived and wrote to give hope for love too. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. } setDisplayBids: function() {}, 22. Baruch Spinoza Life, Mind, Force Baruch Spinoza (2014). Apply yourself with real energy to serious work. Required fields are marked *, document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a343d7f528f6fd7be69d6054cbef5ebb" );document.getElementById("aab6c27e07").setAttribute( "id", "comment" );Comment *. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Baruch Spinoza. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ~ (Baruch Spinoza).Save. The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. ~ (Baruch Spinoza).Saveif(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'internetpillar_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_3',340,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-internetpillar_com-medrectangle-4-0'); 4. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. [CDATA[ The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation. 34. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics Desire Desire is the very essence of man. Those who cannot manage themselves and their private affairs will far less be capable of caring for the public interest. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. These topics were usually typical of ethical discussions. 28. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. God is not He who is, but That which is. ~ (Baruch Spinoza).Save. Do not weep. 1. If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. Baruch Spinoza Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. 34. Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. ~ (Baruch Spinoza). What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. "Reality and perfection are synonymous. self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. window.Mobvious.device_type = 'mobile'; "So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. ", 41. 4. 1. 71. gads.async = true; "Events.Namespace": "csa", 25. The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature. ~ (Baruch Spinoza). 4. 29. //