Spinoza, Correspondence, 146, Letter xix
Baruch Spinoza: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)
Baruch Spinoza era filosofo olandese. Frasi in inglese.
Baruch Spinoza:
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Mi piace
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
Tota felicitas aut infelicitas in hoc solo sita est; videlicet in qualitate obiecti, cui adhaeremus amore.
I, 9; translation by W. Hale White (Revised by Amelia Hutchison Stirling)
On the Improvement of the Understanding (1662)
“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.”
Humanam impotentiam in moderandis et coercendis affectibus servitutem voco; homo enim affectibus obnoxius sui juris non est sed fortunæ in cujus potestate ita est ut sæpe coactus sit quanquam meliora sibi videat, deteriora tamen sequi.
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethica more geometrico demonstrata
Part IV, Preface; translation by R. H. M. Elwes
Ethics (1677)
“The dominant feature in his character was his devotion to the pursuit of truth”
A. Wolf, from the introduction to Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being (1910)
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David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
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George Santayana, in "On My Friendly Critics", in Soliloquies in England (1922)
“My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.”
Meum institutum non est verborum significationem sed rerum naturam explicare
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethica more geometrico demonstrata
Ethics (1677)
Bertrand Russell, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz https://archive.org/details/cu31924052172271 (1900) Ch. 1, Leibniz's Premisses, p, 5.
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“Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.”
As quoted in The Story of Philosophy (1933) by Will Durant, p. 176
“…from the perspective of the eternal.”
sub specie aeternitatis
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethica more geometrico demonstrata
Part V, Prop. XXIII, Scholium
Ethics (1677)
Wie lieb ich diesen edlen Mann
Mehr als ich mit Worten sagen kann.
Doch fürcht' ich, dass er bleibt allein
Mit seinem strahlenen Heiligenschein.
Albert Einstein, first stanza in his poem "Zu Spinozas Ethik" (1920), written in admiration of Spinoza, as quoted in Einstein and Religion (1999) by Max Jammer "Einstein's Poem on Spinoza" (with scans of original German manuscript) at Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/Einsteins_poem/Spinoza.html
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“Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character : for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done. Besides, that commonwealth, whose peace depends on the sluggishness of its subjects, that are led about like sheep, to learn but slavery, may more properly be called a desert than a commonwealth.”
Civitas, cuius subditi metu territi arma non capiunt, potius dicenda est, quod sine bello sit, quam quod pacem habeat. Pax enim non belli privatio, sed virtus est, quae ex animi fortitudine oritur; est namque obsequium constans voluntas id exsequendi, quod ex communi civitatis decreto fieri debet. Illa praeterea civitas, cuius pax a subditorum inertia pendet, qui scilicet veluti pecora ducuntur, ut tantum servire discant, rectius solitudo, quam civitas dici potest.
Liberally rendered in A Natural History of Peace (1996) by Thomas Gregor as:
"Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
Origine: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 5, Of the Best State of a Dominion
“Spinoza is, for me, the prince of philosophers.”
Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (cited in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deleuze.htm#SH3b)
“I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.”
Origine: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 11, Of Democracy
Origine: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 10, Of Aristocracy, Conclusion
Variant translation : Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are but a laughing-stoke ; and, so far from such laws restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, they rather heighten them.
Variant: All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men, that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961)
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Will Durant, beginning with a quote of Sir Frederick Pollock in Life and Philosophy of Spinoza (1899)
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“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.
Baruch Spinoza
libro
Ethica more geometrico demonstrata
Part IV, Prop. LXVII
Ethics (1677)
“Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity”
veritas norma sui et falsi est
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethica more geometrico demonstrata
Part II, Prop. XLIII, Scholium
Ethics (1677)
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
G - L, Jonathan Israel