Quotes Tagged With :spinoza

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

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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