Spinoza, Baruch

"The mind's power is determined solely by knowledge."

"Laws and customs can be judged by reason."

"Hate is overcome not by hate, but by understanding."

"External causes cannot prevent the mind from understanding."

"Good and evil are relative to the perceiver."

"A man is as great as he is useful."

"The more individuals come together, the greater their power."

"Imagination leads to conflict; reason leads to harmony."

"The body cannot be destroyed by the mind."

"Anger is the desire to avenge a wrong."

"True human nature is realized through reason."

"What the mind clearly understands cannot be doubted."

"To live well is to exercise one's power fully."

"Knowledge of the first kind is imagination and isolated experience."

"Strength is knowing what one truly wants."

"Perfection and reality are the same."

"God does not act from will or design, but from necessity."

"The mind is most powerful when it understands itself as part of the whole."

"Compassion rooted in reason is stronger than charity."

"Desire ceases when its cause is understood."

"The body is the mind's window to reality."

"To be free is to be determined by one's own nature alone."

"Ambition tempered by understanding becomes noble."

"Time is the measure of existence, not existence itself."

"The mind cannot will anything except through ideas."

"Understanding produces the highest form of love."

"Weakness is clinging to what diminishes us."

"All passive states are forms of suffering."

"The greatest power is the power to create meaning."

"To understand God is to understand infinite existence."