Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Fancy, Fame

• The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking, Mind, Three

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1662.

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