Baruch Spinoza Quotes on Nature
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent, regarded as one of the leading rationalists of the early modern period. This page collects quotes attributed to Baruch Spinoza on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Baruch Spinoza:
“Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.”
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“[Spinoza] this pure soul, this great realist, the first human being to attempt to become a citizen of the world. . . this down-to-earth passion.”
G - L | Karl Jaspers , to Hannah Arendt , 4 August 1949, letter 91 in Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers Correspondence, edited by Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992) -
“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."”
Political Treatise(1677) -
“Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly than he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and, most of all, the ultimate comprehensibility of nature .”
S - Z | John Archibald Wheeler , in Albert Einstein in Biographical Memoirs Vol. 51, by the National Academy of Sciences -
“Goethe —not a German event, but a European one: a magnificent attempt to overcome the eighteenth century by a return to nature, [...] He sought help from history, natural science, antiquity, and also Spinoza, [...]”
M - R | Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilights of Idols (1888), "Skirmishes of an Untimely Man", 49.