I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Baruch SpinozaIf men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch SpinozaHe who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza