Spinoza Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in… — Albert Einstein
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able… — Albert Einstein
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that… — Michael Hardt
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great… — Moses Hess
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a… — Gertrude Stein
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary… — Edward Abbey
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and… — David Ben-Gurion
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because,… — Bertrand Russell
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be… — George Santayana
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate… — Albert Einstein
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody… — Christopher Hitchens
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight… — Gilles Deleuze
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's… — Albert Einstein
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So… — Will Durant
I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in… — Albert Einstein
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For… — Jorge Luis Borges

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