Baruch Spinoza Quotes
He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
-
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
-
I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
-
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
-
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
-
The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.
-
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
-
A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.
-
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.
-
Remind your self. Nobody constructed like you, you style your self. Jay-Z
-
Happiness is a state of mind.
-
To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
-
The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
-
I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."
-
That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
-
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
-
No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.
-
Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
