He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it... — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
“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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
