Baruch Spinoza

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Baruch Spinoza

I ground everything in geometry and follow where reason leads, however uncomfortable the destination. God and Nature are one. Work out your own freedom—blessedness is not the reward of virtue, it is virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

·1677·Amsterdam, Netherlands

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Part IV: Of Human Bondage, Proposition XVIII, Note

Baruch Spinoza

·1677·Amsterdam, Netherlands

Peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.

Tractatus Politicus, Chapter V, Section 4

Baruch Spinoza

·1677·Amsterdam, Netherlands

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.

Part V: Of the Power of the Intellect, Proposition XLII, Note

Baruch Spinoza

·1677·Amsterdam, Netherlands

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Part II: Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind, Proposition VII