Baruch Spinoza Quotes

“Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:love hate

“The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:knowledge God

“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:knowledge understanding virtue

“Falsity consists solely in the privation of knowledge which inadequate ideas involve”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:knowledge ignorance

“The man, who is guided by reason, is more free in a State, where he lives under a general system of law, than in solitude, where he is independent.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:freedom reason loneliness

“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:freedom consciousness

“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:self pleasure pride

“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:self virtue

“No one wishes to preserve his being for the sake of anything else.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:self

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:God

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