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Things Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which…
- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
- Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by…
- The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
- Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of…
- If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the…
- All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control…
- The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
- The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form…
- True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things…
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
- We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that…
- All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
- Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine…
- God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
- I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can…
- How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost…
- In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
- Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
- Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards…
- All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle