Benedict Spinoza Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Benedict Spinoza
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“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
Guidance Quotes
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
Beauty Quotes
“Desire is the essence of a man.”
Desire Quotes
“None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
Flattery Quotes
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
Perfection Quotes
“If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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