Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings. — 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
Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or… which the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing… — 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
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the… — 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
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those 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
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — 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
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
