311 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

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

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

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.