Humans Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

10 Humans quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical rigor meets the human story in these ten brief statements. He strips away pretense, laying bare the logical underpinnings of our emotions and actions.

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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his…

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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.…

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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human…

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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.…

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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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. . . 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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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…

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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 equal, regard…

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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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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…

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

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But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more…

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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…

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will…

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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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