Top 200 Baruch Spinoza Quotes (2024 Update)
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Baruch Spinoza Quote: “To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis – which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort – allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.”

201. “To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis – which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort – allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.”

202. “Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.”

203. “The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say of Scripture that it is mutilated and contaminated than to say this of God’s Word. In reply, I have to say that such objectors are carrying their piety too far, and are turning religion into superstition; indeed, instead of God’s Word they are beginning to worship likenesses and images, that is, paper and ink.”

204. “It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say of Scripture that it is mutilated and contaminated than to say this of God’s Word. In reply, I have to say that such objectors are carrying their piety too far, and are turning religion into superstition; indeed, instead of God’s Word they are beginning to worship likenesses and images, that is, paper and ink.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.”

205. “Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.”

206. “In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.”

207. “Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”

208. “Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with a little thought by anyone.”

209. “These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with a little thought by anyone.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

210. “Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.”

211. “Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Fear breeds superstition.”

212. “Fear breeds superstition.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself.”

213. “The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification of itself.”

214. “Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification of itself.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Let satirists then laugh their fill at human affairs, let theologians rail, and let misanthropes praise to their utmost the life of untutored rusticity, let them heap contempt on men and praises on beasts; when all is said, they will find that men can provide for their wants much more easily by mutual help.”

215. “Let satirists then laugh their fill at human affairs, let theologians rail, and let misanthropes praise to their utmost the life of untutored rusticity, let them heap contempt on men and praises on beasts; when all is said, they will find that men can provide for their wants much more easily by mutual help.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “He who exults in popular esteem has the daily burden of anxiously striving, acting and contriving to preserve his reputation. For the populace is fickle and inconstant, and unless a reputation is preserved it soon withers away.”

216. “He who exults in popular esteem has the daily burden of anxiously striving, acting and contriving to preserve his reputation. For the populace is fickle and inconstant, and unless a reputation is preserved it soon withers away.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.”

217. “He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.”

— Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza Quote: “Everyone is the defender of his own freedom.”

218. “Everyone is the defender of his own freedom.”

— Baruch Spinoza

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