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Religion Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

12 Religion quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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If you’re curious about how a 17th‑century philosopher tackled faith, this handful of Spinoza’s remarks gives a clear, focused entry. The selections highlight his logical approach without overwhelming you, making it a neat starting point for anyone new to his ideas.

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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

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

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

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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 safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity…

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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…

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The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by…

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Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by…

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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the…

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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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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that…

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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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“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…

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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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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…

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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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