. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — 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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a… — 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
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
“We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The human mind is the very idea or knowledge of the human body (II. xiii.), which (II. ix.) is in God, in… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“[T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“I will only say generally, that in proportion as any given body is more fitted than others for doing many actions or… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his… — 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
