Baruch Spinoza

"To blame others is to misunderstand the nature of causality."

"The deepest love is the recognition of another's power to be and to create."

"Progress in understanding comes through the patient accumulation of adequate ideas."

"To live fully is to increase one's power of thinking and acting in every moment."

"The mind that truly understands cannot despair, for it recognizes infinite possibility."

"Beauty in nature reflects the infinite power of existence expressing itself."

"True friendship is the union of those who increase each other's power to understand and act."

"Time is not an enemy but a medium through which we perfect ourselves."

"The paradox of freedom is that we are most free when most determined by our own nature."

"To give to others is to increase one's own power and being."

"The mind's greatest strength lies in its capacity to form adequate ideas of all things."

"The human body is composed of a great number of parts of diverse nature, each of which requires continual and varied replenishment."

"He who has a true knowledge of himself knows that nothing belongs to him but ignorance."

"In so far as the Mind understands all things as necessary, it has a certain power of affecting the emotions."

"The mind's highest good is the knowledge of God; the mind's highest virtue is to know God."

"Those who are governed by fear are easily enslaved."

"The laws of nature are eternal and inviolable. In them there is no contingency, but necessity."

"Human nature is composed of a great number of parts of diverse nature."

"He whose body is capable of the greatest number of simultaneous actions is thereby capable of thinking the greatest number of thoughts simultaneously."

"Nothing is more useful to man than man; nothing can be found in things more excellent for preserving being than that which is a man."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, nor to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"The basis of virtue is the endeavour to maintain being; the basis of all virtue is self-preservation."

"Men are conscious of their desire and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined."

"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in return; it is only appeased by love."

"If anyone hates another, he endeavours to remove and destroy him."

"The more the Mind is capable of understanding many things at once, the greater its power of acting."

"Passive emotions are the passions; active emotions are the actions."

"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."

"Time is a mode of thinking, not of being."

"Eternity is not conceived as a result of time or as having anything to do with time."