Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Pride, Men

• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

• From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Pain, Hate

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

  Baruch Spinoza

  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

• Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Self, Ideas

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part III : On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions, Prop. 51: Note, 1677.

• Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Indulge Yourself, Healthy, Pleasure

• Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Pain, Hate

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.108, Commodius Vicus

• Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Pain, Love Is, Ideas

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

• The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking, Mind, Three

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1662.

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