Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Hate

Quotes about: Hate

• If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

• From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Pain, Hate

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

• Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Hate, Ambition, Thinking

• 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

• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.125, Commodius Vicus

• He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Hands

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.24, Open Road Media

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