“Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!” — Laurent Binet 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
“No matter how thin you slice the bread, there will always be two sides.” ― Baruch Spinoza.” — Anton Troia 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.png)
![“The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva…” quote by Sivananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/sivananda-7251_absolutes_the-impersonal-aspect-of-god-nirakara-ni_611295.jpg)
