Baruch Spinoza Quote

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


Tractatus Politicus (1677) ch. 1, sect. 4


I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, 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 have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, 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.