Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
