The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. – Baruch Spinoza
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. – Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. – Baruch Spinoza
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. – Baruch Spinoza
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. – Baruch Spinoza