Quote of Baruch Spinoza - A free man thinks of nothing...
Biography - Baruch Spinoza:
Dutch philosopher.
Born: 1632 - Died: 1677
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
Born: 1632 - Died: 1677
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Part IV, Prop. LXVII
Source: Ethics
Translation
(French, German, Latin)
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.
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Quotes about life:
Quotes about wisdom:
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Quotes about death:
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Quotes for: meditation
The really great men in the history of the world have all either known how to meditate or have unconsciously found their way to the place to which meditation leads us.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
Quotes about man, all human beings:
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