Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or f... - Baruch Spinoza

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

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

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

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

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