Spinoza's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 65 votes from people: God, or Nature. · I have taken care not to mock, lament or detest human actions, but to understand them. · All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.. (Updated Aug 26, 2021.)
'Not to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand', 'Deus sive Natura' and 'All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare': Baruch Spinoza's most quoted lines, from the Ethics and the Theological-Political and Political treatises.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 12
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God, or Nature.
Ethics (1677), part IV, preface: 'Deus sive Natura'.
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I have taken care not to mock, lament or detest human actions, but to understand them.
Political Treatise (1677), chapter I, 4.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Ethics (1677), last sentence.
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It is extremely rare for people to relate something simply as it happened, without adding anything of their own judgement.
Theological-Political Treatise (1670), chapter VI.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
Ethics, part III, definitions of the affects, I.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
Ethics, part IV, proposition 67.
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He who repents of an action is doubly wretched and powerless.
Ethics, part IV, proposition 54.
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The purpose of the state is, in reality, freedom.
Theological-Political Treatise (1670), chapter XX.
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There is as much difference between heads as between palates.
Quoted in Agustín Izquierdo's La filosofía contra la religión (2003).
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Joy is man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.
Ethics, part III, definitions of the affects, II.
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The most violent state will be the one that denies each person the freedom to say and teach what they think.
Theological-Political Treatise (1670), chapter XX.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue born of strength of mind.
Political Treatise (1677), chapter V, 4.
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