Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.”
“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.”
“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.”
“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...”
“No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.”
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