Quotes by Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. >>

Will and intellect are one and the same. >>

Quotations about Understanding

Seek first to understand and then to be understood. >>

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known. >>

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. >>

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)