The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
-
-
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
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 determined.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Freedom is self-determination.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA