Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Love, Emotional, Emotion

• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Definition 13: Explanation), 1677.

• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Passion, Emotion

• Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Stronger, Overcoming, Emotion

• Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Suffering, Emotion, Form

• When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Emotion, Prey

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

• The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Emotion, Subjects

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.73, Open Road Media

• Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Pain, Hate

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.108, Commodius Vicus

• The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Complacency, Emotion

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.122, Commodius Vicus

• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Envy, Hatred

• Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lying, Men, Names

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

• If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the ignorant man) seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered. Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wise, Men, Hands

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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