Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Giving Up, Real, Struggle

• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions, Appendix, 17, 1677.

• But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Reality, Men, Giving

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