When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Baruch SpinozaTags: emotions attitude control
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
Baruch SpinozaHuman infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
Baruch SpinozaThe mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
Baruch SpinozaWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
Baruch SpinozaNo reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.
Baruch SpinozaIl est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.
Baruch SpinozaI call him free who is led solely by reason.
Baruch SpinozaTags: reason freedom philosophy
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaTags: philosophy revolution teach new disturbance established-norms
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.
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