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Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits... He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow’s hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or... which the narrator is unable to explain (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)