Baruch Spinoza

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

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

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

"Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens."

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace."

"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason"

"Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."