Quotes

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed. - Anthony Storr


Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- Baruch Spinoza


For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza


Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
- Baruch Spinoza


The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- Baruch Spinoza


I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
- Baruch Spinoza


Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu


I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu


The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu