Philosophy Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

9 Philosophy quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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Spinoza’s rationalist ideas are presented in nine compact statements, each a window into his monist worldview.

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“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

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“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”

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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

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“These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be…

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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,…

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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…

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“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,…

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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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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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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by…

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will…

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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