“Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“No matter how thin you slice the bread, there will always be two sides.” ― Baruch Spinoza.” — Anton Troia Copy Share Image
“Spinoza said that we dream with our eyes open. We trick ourselves into believing we have free will, but free will is… — Anni Taylor Copy Share Image
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Spinoza offers philosophers a new model: the body. He pro poses to establish the body as a model: "We do not know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In 1921, a New York rabbi asked Einstein if he believed in God. "I believe in Spinoza's God," he answered, "who reveals… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he… — Shelby D. Hunt Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Both I and my troubles became the object of an interesting psychoscientific study undertaken by myself. What does Spinoza say in his… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The title for this story comes from the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, who gave Part IV of his work Ethics the title Of… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“n h i s view, a l l the ways of humi l iat ing a n d breaking l ife, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“And, like Buddha, Spinoza is often dismissed as a mere seeker of tranquillity – but what he valued most was joy, which… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“On the other hand it is probably safe to assume that Rembrandt and Spinoza surely would have at least passed on the… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Spinoza’s (1632—1677) Ethics starts with a clear framework, explanation, and definition of his terms. In that way, the philosophical inquiry becomes more… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
“Consistency is the virtue of small minds, and Spinoza had a great mind—he was inconsistent all over the place.” — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“Spinoza compares the feeling of free will to a stone’s thinking, as it travels through space, that it determines its own trajectory… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I can't find this quote in Spinoza's writings. Do you have a cite? If you want the present to be different from… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won’t mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image