The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
More Quotes from Baruch Spinoza:
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch Spinoza
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
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