So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined — Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined — Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate — Baruch Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. — Baruch Spinoza
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing — Baruch Spinoza
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. — Baruch Spinoza
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. — Baruch Spinoza
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor — Baruch Spinoza
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. — Baruch Spinoza
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza