The Spirit of Spinoza Quotes

“we tend to ignore”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“The socially programmed mind is a great deceiver.”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“we can use such considerations to strengthen our resolve to give primary attention to our own inner life. We can resolve to relinquish socially acquired outer-directed goals”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“analysis in the absence of appreciation is absurd. What is the point of analyzing a Beethoven quartet”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“This split or incongruity between inner feelings and outer behavior is especially severe for men in our culture”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“Of course”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“a person who seeks political power to control others is not “powerful” in Spinoza’s sense; on the contrary”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“For our mind is a part of the Mind of God”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“We must resist the habit of thinking that God created the world; rather”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“The physical and the mental are qualitatively distinct aspects—“Attributes,” in Spinoza’s terminology—of God. Because they are qualitatively distinct”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind

“Spinoza”
― Neal Grossman, The Spirit of Spinoza: Healing the Mind