311 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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.

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.