Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

— Baruch Spinoza

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

— Baruch Spinoza

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.

— Baruch Spinoza

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

— Baruch Spinoza

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

— Baruch Spinoza

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

— Baruch Spinoza

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

— Baruch Spinoza

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch Spinoza

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

— Baruch Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

— Baruch Spinoza