Quotes Tagged With :spinoza

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

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

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

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human....

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

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

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

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

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

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