Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza Quotes
- He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
- Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
- 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.
- There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
- All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.