Reason Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

— Baruch Spinoza

“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

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

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

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

— Baruch Spinoza

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

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

— Baruch Spinoza

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

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