Quotes by Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the >>

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. >>

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nat >>

Quotations about Beauty

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all >>

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. >>

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. >>

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)