Spinoza Quotes

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we wav...

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would b...

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas inv...

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessaril...

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth o...

The purpose of the state is really freedom.