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God and all attributes of God are eternal.
— Baruch Spinoza
Antonio Damasio has written three books: Looking for Spinoza, Descartes' Error, and The Feeling of What Happens. These
— Terry Pratchett
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
— Baruch Spinoza
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
— Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in nature is by chance ... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
— Baruch Spinoza
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
— Baruch Spinoza
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
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
— Baruch Spinoza
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
— Baruch Spinoza
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
— Baruch Spinoza
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
— Baruch Spinoza
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
— Baruch Spinoza
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
— Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
— Baruch Spinoza
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
— Baruch Spinoza
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ...
— Baruch Spinoza
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
— Baruch Spinoza
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
— Baruch Spinoza
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
— Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
— Baruch Spinoza
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
— Baruch Spinoza
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
— Baruch Spinoza
Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
— Baruch Spinoza
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
— Baruch Spinoza
Desire is the essence of a man.
— Baruch Spinoza
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
— Baruch Spinoza
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
— Baruch Spinoza
Don't cry and don't rage. Understand.
— Baruch Spinoza
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
— Baruch Spinoza
The purpose of the state is really freedom.
— Baruch Spinoza
Freedom is self-determination.
— Baruch Spinoza
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
— Baruch Spinoza
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
— Baruch Spinoza
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter
— Baruch Spinoza
In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
— Baruch Spinoza
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
— Baruch Spinoza
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
Reality and perfection are synonymous.
— Baruch Spinoza
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
— Baruch Spinoza
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
— Baruch Spinoza
Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind.
— Baruch Spinoza
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
— Baruch Spinoza
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
— Baruch Spinoza
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.
— Christopher Hitchens
I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.
— Baruch Spinoza
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
— Baruch Spinoza
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
— Baruch Spinoza
Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
— Baruch Spinoza
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
— Baruch Spinoza
God is not He who is, but That which is.
— Baruch Spinoza
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
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
— Baruch Spinoza
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
— Baruch Spinoza
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
— Baruch Spinoza
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
— Baruch Spinoza
By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.
— Baruch Spinoza
So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?
— Irvin D. Yalom
All is One (Nature, God)
— Baruch Spinoza
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens.
— Baruch Spinoza
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
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine
— Christopher Hitchens
Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
— Baruch Spinoza
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
— Baruch Spinoza
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
— Baruch Spinoza
The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
— Baruch Spinoza
The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.
— Baruch Spinoza
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
— Baruch Spinoza
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
— Baruch Spinoza
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
— Baruch Spinoza
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
— Baruch Spinoza
A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
— Baruch Spinoza
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
— Baruch Spinoza
So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God - in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.
— Baruch Spinoza
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
— Baruch Spinoza
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
— Baruch Spinoza
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
— Baruch Spinoza
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
— Baruch Spinoza
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
— Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
— Baruch Spinoza
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
— Baruch Spinoza
We feel and know that we are eternal.
— Baruch Spinoza