Baruch Spinoza Quotes - Page 7

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• God and all attributes of God are eternal.

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  God, Attributes, Attributes Of God

  "Ethics". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 19, 1677.

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• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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  Doe, Influence, Effects

  "Ethics". Part I: Concerning God, Prop. 36, 1677.

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• It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

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  Men, Envy, Human Nature

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• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

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  Communication, Law, Evil

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by B. Spinoza, ch. 2, Of Natural Right, 1883.

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• A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

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  Men, People, Hatred

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• Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

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  God, Order, Different

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.49, Baruch Spinoza

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• 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 in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

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  Taken, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Bold Truth" by Lazima Tutashinda, (p. 266), January 1, 1997.

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• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

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  Men, Fancy, Fame

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• If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

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  Life, Hate, Thinking

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

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• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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  Philosophical, Pantheism, Without God

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.18, Commodius Vicus

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

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  Pain, Love Is, Ideas

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

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• There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

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  No Fear, No Hope

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• Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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  Intellect

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.57, Hackett Publishing

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• In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

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  Our Actions, Guidance, Reason

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• Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

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  Men, Law, Mind

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

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  Ideas, Effort, Mind

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• Desire is the very essence of man

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  Philosophy, Men, Essence

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
  them.

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  Men, Law, Broken

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

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  Order, Ideas, Connections

  Baruch Spinoza (1992). “Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

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• The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

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  Past, Mind, Body

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.418, Baruch Spinoza

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• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

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  Men, Experience, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, 1677.

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

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  Mind, Weakness, Ethics

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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• Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

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  Order, Fixed, Preserves

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• Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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  Suffering, Emotion, Form

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• Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

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  Evil, Causes, Omen

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