“ self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. ”
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
