3 Quotes & Sayings By Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch Jewish philosopher. His posthumous name, meaning "Blessed", is usually translated into English as Benedict or Benedictus. He also wrote under the Latin name Benedictvs Spinoza or Benedict de Spinoza. His magnum opus, the Ethics, has influenced Western philosophy, often through his formulation of the fundamental concepts of rationalism and determinism Read more

The Ethics also contains the political Treatise, in which he opposed the monarchy in The Hague and in which he formulated the limited power of the state.

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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect. Spinoza
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing. Spinoza