Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.


Bernard M. Baruch

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BARUCH FISCHHOFF
I don't know if the learning is as systematic as it needs to be.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowa...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
I don't see anybody talking in terms of shame. I don't see any soul-searching.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
The medical experts' estimates suggest this is a bigger risk than anything else we are facing.
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
You really can encourage people to behave in certain ways. But if we have plans that depend on human...
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to...
BARUCH SPINOZA
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BARUCH SPINOZA
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposit...
BARUCH SPINOZA
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands...
BARUCH SPINOZA
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
BARUCH SPINOZA
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because w...
BARUCH SPINOZA
All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, ...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as...
BARUCH SPINOZA
God is a thing that thinks.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZA
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA
True virtue is life under the direction of reason
BARUCH SPINOZA
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to un...
BARUCH SPINOZA
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absu...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
BARUCH SPINOZA
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I advise you to think, ask around and consult other people.
BARUCH MARZEL
Sharon stabbed us in the back. We have no time to pray for Sharon or to feel pain for Sharon. We are...
BARUCH MARZEL
We aren't praying for this evil person. He went against God. He went against the Bible. He betrayed ...
BARUCH MARZEL
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA
We feel and know that we are eternal
BARUCH SPINOZA
Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause
BARUCH SPINOZA
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things
BARUCH SPINOZA