Emotion Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

10 Emotion quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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If you’re curious about a quick philosophical angle on emotions, Spinoza’s ten concise reflections give a clear, rational snapshot.

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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

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The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

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“By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided…

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Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not…

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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,…

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“Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any…

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If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise…

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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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