Hate Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

10 Hate quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza distills complex ideas about hatred into ten compact statements. His rational, almost clinical approach offers a clear lens on the emotion, making each line a compact lesson in philosophical clarity.

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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it...

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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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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being…

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everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to…

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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the…

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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to…

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From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied…

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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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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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