Ideas Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

10 Ideas quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Spinoza’s thoughts on ideas are distilled into a concise set of statements that still echo his systematic approach to reason and emotion.

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He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning…

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The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

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He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

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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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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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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be…

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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur…

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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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. . . 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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