If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will… — 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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it... — 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
“Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — 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 greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and… — 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
If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the… — 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
