{"quotes":[{"text":"He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["epistemology","metaphysics","mind","philosophy","spinoza","truth"],"id":22777,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["free-will","schopenhauer","spinoza"],"id":28409,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment leaves him without a story of the Enlightenment's intellectual or cultural origins. Every historian has to begin somewhere, but the fact that Israel begins with Spinoza, and then reduces most of what follows the philosopher to a footnote, leaves his account of the Enlightenment founded on something like immaculate conception.","author":"Samuel Moyn","tags":["enlightenment","jonathan-israel","spinoza"],"id":40506,"author_id":"Samuel+Moyn"},{"text":"Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last prefer tyranny to chaos. Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and 'he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.' Democracy has still to solve the problem of enlisting the best energies of men while giving to all alike the choice of those, among the trained and fit, by whom they wish to be ruled.","author":"Will Durant","tags":["aristocracy","democracy","equality","government","monarchy","nature","politics","rulership","spinoza"],"id":165666,"author_id":"Will+Durant"},{"text":"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["metaphysics","mind","philosophy","philosophy-of-mind","spinoza"],"id":167463,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["altruism","ethics","moral-philosophy","philosophy","spinoza","virtue"],"id":172143,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["ethics","hate","love","love-thy-enemies","moral-philosophy","nonviolence","philosophy","spinoza","violence"],"id":206028,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["ethics","happiness","philosophy","pleasure","spinoza","superstition"],"id":252370,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["atheism","god","metaphysics","mysticism","pantheism","philosophy","spinoza"],"id":282064,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.","author":"Shelby D. Hunt","tags":["baruch-spinoza","deism","enlightenment","gottfried-leibniz","gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz","leibniz","liberal","optimist","pantheism","progress","reasoning","scientific-progress","scientist","spinoza","views"],"id":366642,"author_id":"Shelby+D.+Hunt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}