Ethics Quotes

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

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:God

“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:God

“there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:fear hope

“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:fear evil hope

“Will and understanding are one and the same.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:understanding will

“Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:power desire ambition

“human power is extremely limited, and is infinitely surpassed by the power of external causes; we have not, therefore, an absolute power of shaping to our use those things which are without us.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:power humanity

“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:good evil

“Under the guidance of reason we should pursue the greater of two goods and the lesser of two evils.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:good evil reason

“Nature does not work with an end in view. For the eternal and infinite Being, which we call God or Nature, acts by the same necessity as that whereby it exists.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:nature

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