Quotes Tagged With :spinoza

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

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

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

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

Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence....

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

Cruelty links all three primitives [pleasure, pain, and desire]: Spinoza defines it as the desire to....

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

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish....

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