Quotes about Spinoza

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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived — Baruch Spinoza
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men... — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable — in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve. — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
The purpose of the state is really freedom. — Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last pre — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceive — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscio — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
For though men be ignorant, yet they are men — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was — Samuel Moyn
Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scie — Shelby D. Hunt, Marketing Theory: Foundations, Controversy, Strategy, and Resource-Advantage Theory
Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nat — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Sp — Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Cruelty links all three primitives [pleasure, pain, and desire]: Spinoza defines it as the desire to inflict pain on som — Emanuel Derman, Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was m — Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1