Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Hatred

Quotes about: Hatred

• 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

• Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hatred, Acting

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.27, Open Road Media

• He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hands, Generosity

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 66, 1677.

• If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Envy, Hatred

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

• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

  Baruch Spinoza

  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

• A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, People, Hatred

• Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Love, Life, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.223, Baruch Spinoza

• In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
  Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Powerful, Men

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.226, Commodius Vicus

• Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hands, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.129, 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

• 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

• Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Pain, Love Is, Ideas

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

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