I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men…

“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza 's Amor…

— Albert Einstein

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without…

— Gertrude Stein

“Spinoza compares the feeling of free will to a stone’s thinking, as it travels through space, that it determines its own trajectory and selects…

— Will Durant

“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.”

— Lev Shestov

The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by…

— Sivananda

“Both I and my troubles became the object of an interesting psychoscientific study undertaken by myself. What does Spinoza say in his Ethics?—"Affectus, qui…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Spinoza writes, “A free man, that is to say, a man who lives according to the dictates of reason alone, is not led by…

— Ruth Ozeki

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly…

— Albert Einstein

“Consistency is the virtue of small minds, and Spinoza had a great mind—he was inconsistent all over the place.”

— Jim Holt

“Spinoza left a celebrated description of his life’s endeavour: After experience had taught me that all things which frequently take place in ordinary life…

— Roger Scruton

“On the other hand it is probably safe to assume that Rembrandt and Spinoza surely would have at least passed on the street, now…

— David Markson

Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

— T. S. Eliot

“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And…

— Irvin D. Yalom

When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured…

— Louis D. Brandeis