Benedictus de Spinoza Quotes

The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

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

Reason is no match for passion.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

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.

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.