Quotes from Spinoza

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

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

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

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

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

The intellectual love of a thing consists in understanding its perfections.

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

it is certain that seditions, wars, and contempt or breach of the laws are not so much to be imputed to the wickedness of the subjects, as to the bad state of the dominion.

Finally, it follows from the preceding proposition that the joy by which the drunkard is enslaved is altogether different from the joy which is the portion of the philosopher,--a think I wished just to hint in passing.

The knowledge of evil is inadequate knowledge Ethics Book IV, proposition 64

Everything that is great is as rare to find as it is difficult to do.

Quod erat demonstrandum

Afflectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius clarum et distinctam formamus ideam.

Los peores tiranos son aquellos que saben hacerse amar.

Omul liberber se gînde?te cel mai pu?in la moarte ; în?elepciunea sa este de a medita nu asupra mor?ii, ci asupra vie?ii.

ceux que l'on croit être le plus pleins de mésestime d'eux-mêmes et d'humilité, sont généralement le plus pleins d'ambition et d'envie

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El deseo es la verdadera esencia del hombre" (Spinoza)

Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.