Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

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• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Different
  • Alone
  • New

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• To be rude to someone is not my nature.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Nature
  • Someone
  • Rude

• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Reading

• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Now
  • Adapt

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Together
  • Nature

• NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Opportunity
  • Alone
  • Down

• Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Free
  • Growing

• In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

• How does it feel when you're alone and you're cold inside...

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Alone
  • Cold inside

• Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Art
  • Science

• I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Height

• I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Wonder

• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Alone