God Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

12 God quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Spinoza’s rational approach to the divine can feel both challenging and rewarding. This concise set captures some of his key ideas, making a solid entry point for deeper study.

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God is a thing that thinks.

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Whatsoever is, is in God.

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God and all attributes of God are eternal.

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God is not He who is, but That which is.

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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has…

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“These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be…

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God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing…

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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions,…

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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

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

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