Spinoza's Religion Quotes

“Being seized by powerful affects which agitate the mind or soul constitutes a grave danger to our being.41 All these disturbances happen, Spinoza continues, ‘only in the love of those things that can perish, as [wealth, honour, sensual pleasure] can do. But love [amor] toward the eternal and infinite thing feeds the mind [animum] with a joy entirely exempt from sadness. This is greatly to be desired [desiderandum], and to be sought with all our strength.’42”
― Clare Carlisle, Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics