“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — 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
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,… — 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
