Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Baruch Spinozait is certain that seditions, wars, and contempt or breach of the laws are not so much to be imputed to the wickedness of the subjects, as to the bad state of the dominion.
Baruch Spinozathe ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
Baruch SpinozaTag: liberty government
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch SpinozaTag: regulation
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaThose who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
Baruch SpinozaTag: truth thinking knowledge nature wonder miracles ignorance understanding philosopher foolish fools gods authority adoration cause causation heresy mob piety preservation astonishment interpret stare heretical impious the-gods
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch SpinozaBetter that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens.
Baruch SpinozaHe who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
Baruch SpinozaОпитът твърде често ни учи, че хората над нищо не са така малко властни, както над своя език.
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