All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch-Spinoza
All things in nature proceed from certain necessity and with the utmost perfection.
All things in nature proceed from certain necessity and with the utmost perfection.
God and Nature are one and the same.
God and Nature are one and the same.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to...
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Man is not situated in nature as a kingdom within a kingdom, but as a part of the whole.
Man is not situated in nature as a kingdom within a kingdom, but as a part of the whole.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, c...
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understan...
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
Profile: Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was a Dutch philosopher whose pantheistic philosophy influenced Arne Naess’s development of deep ecology. Writing in the 17th century, Spinoza proposed a monistic …