I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaHe who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
Baruch SpinozaThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Baruch SpinozaNature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
Baruch Spinoza