Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lust, Delight, Rewards

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Happiness, Happy, Rewards

• 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

• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Rewards, Virtue, Blessedness

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Peace, War, Philosophical

• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Firsts, Virtue

• self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Self, Foundation, Virtue

• The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Government, Freedom Of Speech, Sound

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" by Baruch Spinoza, (Ch. 20), 1677.

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Virtue

• In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

  Baruch Spinoza

  People, Virtue, Intellect

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, p.37, Jovian Press

• The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Overcoming, Faces

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