When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They… — 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
everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise… — 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
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
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
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
“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
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
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
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
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
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
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
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
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… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share
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
