Benedict Spinoza Quotes

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Benedict Spinoza quote

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

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

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

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Benedict Spinoza quote

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Benedict Spinoza quote

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Benedict Spinoza quote

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Benedict Spinoza quote

Biography

1632-1677, Dutch philosopher