Netherlands Quotes

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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