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Biography - Baruch Spinoza:

Dutch philosopher.
Born: 1632 - Died: 1677
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
Netherlands

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.


Note 

Note



Part IV, Prop. LXVII


Source: Ethics



Translation

Translation

(French, German, Latin)



French
L’homme libre ne pense à rien moins qu’à la mort, et sa sagesse est une méditation non de la mort, mais de la vie.

German
Der freie Mensch denkt über nichts weniger nach als über den Tod, und seine Weisheit ist nicht ein Nachsinnen über den Tod, sondern über das Leben.

Latin
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.




See also 

See also...



The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.

One cannot judge a life by any less true measure than death.




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: wisdom


Quotes

Quotes about wisdom:


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.











Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





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.





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.





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


Quotes

Quotes for: meditation


Sleep is the best 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.





We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.





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.





We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness, seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it.







Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.





No man is weak by choice.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.











Quotes

Baruch Spinoza also said...


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.





Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.





Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.





Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.












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