Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
-
Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
-
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
-
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
-
I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
-
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
-
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
-
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
-
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
-
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
-
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
-
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
-
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?
-
There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
-
It's a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That's not the case. We live in a world that's broken, where there's disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.
-
When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
-
I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack.
-
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
