Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Inspirational, Education, Understanding

  "Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists" by Edward Wayne Younkins, Lexington Books, (p. 83), 2008.

• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Understanding, Intuition

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.77, Open Road Media

• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Law, Understanding

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Preface), 1677.

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Attitude, Two Sides

• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Science, Men

• I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Laughing, Understanding

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