Baruch Spinoza – Best Quotes

Nothing in the universe is contingent but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Nature

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

Baruch Spinoza

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

Music

One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent e.g. music is good to the melancholy bad to those who mourn and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent e.g. music is good to the melancholy bad to those who mourn and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Motivation

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Learning

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Baruch Spinoza

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue based on strength of character.

For peace is not mere absence of war but is a virtue that springs from a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing in the universe is contingent but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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

One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent e.g. music is good to the melancholy bad to those who mourn and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.