The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More
Apps...
Quotation by Baruch Spinoza
More Quotes From
Baruch Spinoza (13)Additional Sources
Ethics On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 70, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955)Ethics On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 66, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955)Ethics On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 68, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955)Ethics On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, pp. 270-271, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955)Ethics On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 55, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955)
As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notions which we form from the comparison of things with one another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him who mourns; for him who is deaf, it is neither good nor bad.
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1623–1677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. Ethics, bk. IV, Introduction, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 114, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955).
Spinoza's Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy.
Spinoza's Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy.
Surprise me with a
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
