Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Wish, Desire

• Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mankind, Interest, Consulting

• Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Religion, Useless

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, Jovian Press

• Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Broken, Laughing

• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wise, Inspiration, Men

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1677.

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