In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Baruch Spinoza More Quotes by Baruch Spinoza More Quotes From Baruch Spinoza The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures. Baruch Spinoza body mind past From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred. Baruch Spinoza pain hate life 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. Baruch Spinoza nuisance men reality All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. Baruch Spinoza excellence perfection inspirational There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear. Baruch Spinoza no-hope no-fear All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza philosophical happy happiness Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing. Baruch Spinoza law mind men But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing. Baruch Spinoza giving men reality Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it. Baruch Spinoza hatred love life Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find. Baruch Spinoza difficult realizing Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence. Baruch Spinoza substance essence law Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. Baruch Spinoza blessedness rewards virtue There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. Baruch Spinoza cancer hope fear Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. Baruch Spinoza indulge-yourself pleasure healthy Will and intellect are one and the same thing. Baruch Spinoza intellect In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. Baruch Spinoza aspect eternity mind Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare. Baruch Spinoza difficult excellent Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. Baruch Spinoza effects influence doe He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. Baruch Spinoza ethics weakness mind A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present. Baruch Spinoza anticipation men past
