Brian Neill

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”
― Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise