Baruch Spinoza Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Baruch Spinoza

Inspirational, Education, Understanding

"Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists" by Edward Wayne Younkins, Lexington Books, (p. 83), 2008.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Baruch Spinoza

Wisdom, Understanding, Intuition

Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.77, Open Road Media

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature, Law, Understanding

"Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Preface), 1677.