Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

Dutch philosopher

Lived from: 1632 - 1677

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagNetherlands

Born: 24 november 1632 Died: 21 february 1677

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  • If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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  • If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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  • If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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  • In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
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  • It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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  • It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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  • It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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  • Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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  • Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
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  • None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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  • Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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  • One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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  • Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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  • Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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  • Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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  • Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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  • Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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  • Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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  • So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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  • Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
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