Complete Works Quotes

“Indeed, just as light makes manifest both itself and darkness, so truth is the standard both of itself and falsity.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Complete Works

“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Complete Works

“2. The essence of things are from all eternity, and unto all eternity shall remain immutable; The existence of God is essence; Therefore...”
― Baruch Spinoza, Delphi Collected Works of Baruch Spinoza (Illustrated)

“seulement la foi vraie et la raison qui nous conduisent à la connaissance du bien et du mal.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza : Oeuvres complètes et annexes - 16 titres - Annotés

“Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Complete Works

“supreme authority to explain religion and to make judgment concerning it is vested in each individual”
― Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Complete Works