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Famous Baruch Spinoza Quotes
“The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.”
“Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.”
“In the mind there is no absolute or free will.”
“If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.”
“Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.”
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.”
“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
“Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.”
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”