Baruch Spinoza
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"Baruch Spinoza" was a Netherlands/Dutch philosopher. The breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until many years after his death. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment/Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and, arguably, the universe,cite news

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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

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

Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.