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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
... The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse... we should strive to keep worry from our life (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Men will find that they can... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The greatest secret of monarchic rule... is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity... hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
As men’s habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them (Baruch Spinoza Quotes)