The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
Baruch SpinozaI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaNothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
Baruch SpinozaMany errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
Baruch Spinoza