Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Taken, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Bold Truth" by Lazima Tutashinda, (p. 266), January 1, 1997.

• [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Running, Ignorance, Way

• I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Superstitions, Latter

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “Letters to Friend and Foe”, p.15, Open Road Media

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Pride, Self

• Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.70, Commodius Vicus

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