. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — 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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself… — 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
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature — 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
As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human… — 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
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to… — 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
