Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Husband

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Remember

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Works
  • Divine
  • Slaves

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Doing

• One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Space
  • Air
  • Confidence

• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Balance

• I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Community
  • Peace

• As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Men
  • Taken

• ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Real
  • Opinion
  • Virtue

• Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Perils
  • Beset