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Benedictus Spinoza a felvilágosodás korának racionalista filozófusa, a panteizmus, illetve a korai materializmus képviselőjének is tekinthetjük. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. november 1632 – 21. február 1677   •   Más nevek Baruch de Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza híres idézetei

„Az öröm: az ember átmenete a kisebb tökéletességről a nagyobb tökéletességre.”

Baruch Spinoza

Idézetek műveiből, Etika

„Ha az emberek minden ügyüket határozott terv szerint tudnák irányítani, vagy ha a sors mindig kedvezne nekik, akkor sohasem lennének a babona rabjai.”

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Idézetek műveiből, Teológiai-politikai tanulmány

„Minden ami van, Istenben van és semmi nem létezhet és nem fogható fel Isten nélkül.”

Baruch Spinoza

Idézetek műveiből, Etika

„Minden indulatot csak nála erősebb és vele ellentétes indulat képes megfékezni, s az embert csak a nagyobb kártól való félelem tartja vissza attól, hogy kárt okozzon másnak.”

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Idézetek műveiből, Etika

„Az emberek többnyire úgy vannak megalkotva, hogy semmit sem viselnek el nehezebben, mint azt, hogy olyan nézeteket, amelyeket ők igaznak tartanak, bűnnek bélyegezzenek és gonosztettül róják fel, nekik azt, ami őket az isten iránt való jámborságra és az emberek iránti szeretetre indítja. Ennek a következménye, hogy megutálják a törvényeket és mindenre merészkednek a hatósággal szemben, s hogy szemükben nem gyalázat, hanem a legtiszteletreméltóbb dolog lázadásokat szítani emiatt, s minden lehető gonosztettet megkísérelni.”

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Idézetek műveiből, Teológiai-politikai tanulmány

„Mert már rég odáig jutott a dolog, hogy mindenkit, akár keresztény, török, zsidó vagy pogány, csak külső testi megjelenéséről és öltözetéről lehet megismerni, vagy arról, hogy ennek vagy annak a felfogásnak a híve s valamelyik mester szavaira szokott esküdni. Egyébként valamennyinek egyforma az élete.”

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Idézetek műveiből, Teológiai-politikai tanulmány

Baruch Spinoza Idézetek az emberekről

„Az indulatoknak alávetett ember nem a maga ura, hanem ura a sors, s ennek annyira a hatalmában van, hogy gyakran noha belátja a jót, mégis a rosszat kénytelen elkövetni.”

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Idézetek műveiből, Etika

„A legtöbben, akik az indulatokról és az emberek helyes életmódjáról írnak, úgy járnak el, mintha nem természeti dolgokról szólnának, amelyek a természet közös törvényeit követik, hanem a természeten kívül eső dolgokról. Sőt úgy látszik, az embert a természetben úgy fogják fel, mint az államot az államban. Mert azt hiszik, hogy az ember a természet rendjét inkább megzavarja, mintsem követi, s hogy feltétlen hatalma van a cselekedetein, és semmi más nem determinálja őt ön-saját magán kívül. Azután az emberi tehetetlenség és állhatatosság okát nem a természet közös hatalmának tulajdonítják, hanem az emberi természet nem tudom micsoda hibájának, s ennélfogva megsiratják, kinevetik, megvetik vagy - s ez történik legtöbbször - elátkozzák; s aki pedig az emberi lélek tehetetlenségét különös ékesszólással és élességgel tudja gáncsolni, azt szinte isteni lénynek tartják.”

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Alexander Bernát fordítása
Idézetek műveiből, Etika

„Azt hiszem a legtöbb ember nem ismeri önmagát: mindeni aki emberek közt élt, azt tapasztalhatta, hogy a legtöbben, amíg jól megy dolguk, még ha felette tudatlanok is, bővében vannak a bölcsességnek, annyira, hogy személyes sértésnek veszik, ha valaki tanácsot akar adni; ha ellenben rosszra fordul a sorsuk, akkor nem tudják kihez forduljanak, mindenkitől könyörögve kérnek tanácsot…”

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Idézetek műveiből, Teológiai-politikai tanulmány

Baruch Spinoza: Idézetek angolul

“The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads — Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.”

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Variant translation: The things which … are esteemed as the greatest good of all … can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
On the Improvement of the Understanding (1662)

“This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.”

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Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).

“A God-intoxicated man.”

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Novalis, as quoted in Novalis (1829) by Thomas Carlyle: "Spinoza is a God-intoxicated man (Gott-trunkenet Mensch)."

“And then, a little Jew, with a long nose and a pale complexion, Poor but satisfied, pensive and reserved, A subtle but hollow spirit, less read than celebrated, Hidden under the mantle of Descartes, his mentor, Walking with measured steps, comes close to the great being: Excuse me, he says, addressing him in a whisper, But I think, just between us, that you do not exist at all.”

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Voltaire's poem, as quoted in António Damásio's Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003)
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“Spinoza in particular belongs to the immortal authors. He is great because of the sublime simplicity of his thoughts and his way of writing, great because of his distance from all scholasticism, and, on the other hand, from all false embellishment or ostentation of language.”

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Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy (1833) [Translated from the German by Andrew Bowie]
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“It is unquestionably the peacefulness and calm of the Spinozist system which particularly produces the idea of its depth, and which, with hidden but irresistible charm, has attracted so many minds. The Spinozist system will also always remain in a certain sense a model. A system of freedom — but with just as great contours, with the same simplicity, as a perfect counter-image (Gegenbild) of the Spinozist system — this would really be the highest system. This is why Spinozism, despite the many attacks on it, and the many supposed refutations, has never really become something truly past, never been really overcome up to now, and no one can hope to progress to the true and the complete in philosophy who has not at least once in his life lost himself in the abyss of Spinozism. Nobody who wishes to arrive at his own firm conviction should leave unread the main work of Spinoza, his Ethics (for he presented his system under this title), and I should like to urge everyone who is seriously concerned with his education not only to study assiduously on his own, which no teacher can replace, but to be most conscientious and careful in the choice of what he reads.”

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Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling, On the History of Modern Philosophy (1833) [Translated from the German by Andrew Bowie]
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“Even in the case of philosophers who give systematic form to their work, Spinoza for instance, the true inner structure of the system is quite unlike the form in which it was consciously presented by him.”

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Karl Marx, in his letter to Ferdinand Lassalle, 31 May 1858 [original in German]
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“It is to the highest credit of the philosophy of the time that it did not let itself be led astray by the restricted state of contemporary natural knowledge, and that — from Spinoza down to the great French materialists — it insisted on explaining the world from the world itself and left the justification in detail to the natural science of the future.”

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Friedrich Engels, in his The Dialectics of Nature
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“In America we are such rowdies in church and state and the very boys are so soon ripe, that I think no philosophical skepticism will make much sensation. Spinoza pronounced that there was but one substance; yea, verily, but that boy yonder told me yesterday he thought the pinelog was God, and that God was in the jakes. What can Spinoza tell the boy?”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his journal entry
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“Can any one doubt that if the noblest saint among the Buddhists, the best Mahometan, the highest Stoic of Athens, the purest and wisest Christian, — Buddha and Menu in India, Confucius in China, Spinoza in Holland, could somewhere meet and converse, — they would all find themselves of one religion, — would find themselves denounced by their own sects, and sustained by these believed adversaries of their sects.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his lecture entitled “Essential Principles of Religion,”
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“Is Spinoza baroque? No, but if we find, through this line of thinking, a spurious and worn-out figure that rejects the crisis, that repeats the utopia in its ingenuous Renaissance form, what we have found is merely Spinozism. When classical idealism takes up Spinoza, in effect it only takes up (or invents?) Spinozism, a Renaissance philosophy of the bourgeois revolution of the capitalist market!”

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Selected works, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (1991)

“In Spinoza, at the origin of the Modern world, metaphysical theory and the theory of science are given in complete agreement for the first time. They represent the alternative to the entire subsequent path of metaphysics and of the bourgeois theory of science. Spinoza lives as an alternative: Today this alternative is real. The Spinozian analytic of full space and open time are becoming an ethics of liberation in all the dimensions that this discourse constructs and makes available.”

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Selected works, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (1991)

“And therefore we can see just how constructive this Spinozian difference is, just how constructive this negativity really is! The organic interweaving of these two motifs is fundamental in the history of European philosophy. Spinoza is the first to mold this logical mechanism that bourgeois philosophy would constantly and continually try to abrogate during its subsequent development. In Kantianism, as in classical idealism, Spinoza continually remains the object of opposition and polemic: What is destroyed is precisely the intersection between the negation of the ideology and the construction of the world, the inherence of the limit, of the materiality, to the infinite.”

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Selected works, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (1991)

“Spinoza accomplishes the synthesis of traditional philosophical components by means of breaking and shattering. It is useless to pursue the presuppositions of Spinozian philosophy if we do not look for them in the qualitative leap determined by his philosophy. The continuity of Spinozian thought with respect to the preceding course of the history of metaphysics consists of a radical discontinuity, one that exalts the utopia of consciousness and freedom (a patrimony of Western thought) in a project of liberation. The perspective of the world is not a utopia, the immanentism is not aesthetic, and the liberation is no longer artisanal, but all of this is presupposed, it is taken as a basis.”

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Selected works, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (1991)

“Some have spoken of a liberal Spinoza, and others, of a democratic Spinoza. By the same standard one could also speak of an artistocratic Spinoza or a monarchical Spinoza — and it has been done. Perhaps also an anarchic Spinoza? No one has ever said that.”

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Selected works, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (1991)

“However, his contemporary, Leibnitz, the father of the German enlightenment, who created an optimistic world-picture, always remained only a philosopher for philosophers. Even Immanuel Kant, although always famous, was never popular. In his own fatherland he was all but forgotten for most of the nineteenth century until revived by Hermann Cohen and his school. Spinoza, however, was never exhumed because he was never buried. Kant, because of his exclusive intellectuality, has influenced only his students, while Spinoza, because of his emotional appeal, has ruled even those who have never heard his name.”

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Selected works, Spinoza and Buddha: Visions of a Dead God (1933)

“It may be observed, however, that Spinoza was not the first prominent monist and pantheist in modern Europe. A generation before him Bruno conveyed a similar message to humanity. Yet Bruno is merely a beautiful episode in the history of the human mind, while Spinoza is one of its most potent forces. Bruno was a rhapsodist and a poet, who was overwhelmed with artistic emotions; Spinoza, however, was spiritus purus and in his method the prototype of the philosopher.”

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Selected works, Spinoza and Buddha: Visions of a Dead God (1933)

“Baruch Spinoza, the excommunicated Jew, made the Jewish cultural position in the West not only tenable, but impregnable. But the same Baruch Spinoza was actually responsible for the cultural anti-Semitism of modern Europe. He shaped the strong anti-Jewish attitude of his greatest admirers, followers, and adepts Herder, Goethe, Hegel, and Fichte. They were outspoken Jew-haters. They admired Spinoza, but with their master hated his race and its world-picture.”

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Selected works, Spinoza and Buddha: Visions of a Dead God (1933)

“Nothing is less Greek than the conceptual web-spinning of a hermit—amor intellectualis dei—after the fashion of Spinoza.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilights of Idols (1888), "Skirmishes of an Untimely Man", 23.
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“When I speak of Plato, Pascal, Spinoza and Goethe, I know that their blood flows in mine—I am proud, when I tell the truth about them—the family is good enough not to have to poeticize or to conceal; and thus I stand to everything that has been, I am proud of the humanity, and especially proud of unconditional truthfulness.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950)
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“Spinoza, too, whom I was reading under Royce himself, filled me with joy and enthusiasm: I gathered at once from him a doctrine which has remained axiomatic with me ever since, namely that good and evil are relative to the natures of animals, irreversible in that relation, but indifferent to the march of cosmic events, since the force of the universe infinitely exceeds the force of any of its parts.”

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George Santayana, in his A General Confession (from The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings)
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“When you say Spinoza, however, besides being too flattering, the comparison is not biographically so true. My Spinozism is in the Life of Reason, less obviously, perhaps, yet more dominantly, than in Realms of Being.”

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These, as you know, are not at all like Spinoza's attributes. They are not aspects or forms of the same reality, absolutely parallel and coextensive. My realms are layers: more as in Plotinus; and my moral or “spiritual” philosophy is again less Spinozistic than in the humanistic period. Spinoza's moral sentiments were plebeian, Dutch, and Jewish: perfectly happy in his corner, polishing his lenses, and saying, Great is Allah. No art, no high politics, no sympathy with greatness, no understanding of courage or of despair.
George Santayana, in his letter to Daniel MacGhie Cory, 25 January 1937
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“I believe there is another reason also why Spinoza seems to me so pre-eminent: that in spite of being traditional, or because he was not distracted by side issues, he was an entire and majestic mind, a singularly consecrated soul. All these trite dogmas and problems lived in him and were the natural channels for his intuitions and emotions. That is what I feel to make a real philosopher and not, what we are condemned to be, professors of the philosophy of other people, or of our own opinions.”

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George Santayana, in his letter to Harry Austryn Wolfson, 16 June 1934
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“My philosophy is normal human orthodox philosophy, such as has come down from the Indians through the Greeks, to Spinoza. It is simply not Protestant philosophy. The problems of Protestant philosophy do not exist for me: I regard them as products of a confusion of thought, of a heresy. Catholic philosophy differs from the normal only in that it accepts sacred history as well as natural history as the true account of the facts: but when the facts are agreed upon, one way or another, philosophy has no real difficulty in discovering what to say. It has said everything essential already. To invent a philosophy would be not to have understood.”

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George Santayana, in his letter to John Boynton Priestley, 15 September 1924
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“I can always say to myself that my atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests; and that even in this denial I am no rude iconoclast, but full of secret sympathy with the impulses of idolaters.”

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George Santayana, in "On My Friendly Critics", in Soliloquies in England (1922)
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“I proposed not to bore you with any more of my metaphysics or ethics, but I will say a word by way of conclusion. If you want any more, go to Spinoza and Schopenhauer, where I get mine.”

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George Santayana, in a letter to Henry Ward Abbot, December 1886. As quoted in A Philosophical Novelist: George Santayana and The Last Puritan, edited by H. T. Kirby-Smith (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997)
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“As a student, in an hour when he was needing the help of sages, he followed Renan; Spinoza freed his mind in matters of religion; from afar came the brotherly greeting of Tolstoi.”

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Stefan Zweig, in his book Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work. Translated from the original manuscript by Eden and Cedar Paul. (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921)
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“But how to write about a man who lived such a contemplative life marked by so few striking external events? He was extraordinarily private, and he kept his own person invisible in his writing. I had none of the material that ordinarily lends itself to narrative—no family dramas, no love affairs, jealousies, curious anecdotes, feuds, spats, or reunions. He had a large correspondence, but after his death his colleagues followed his instructions and removed almost all personal comments from his letters. No, not much external drama in his life: most scholars regard Spinoza as a placid and gentle soul—some compare his life to that of Christian saints, some even to Jesus.”

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Irvin D. Yalom, in his novel The Spinoza Problem, prologue. (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
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“I also believe that Spinoza, like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, on whose lives and philosophy I have based two earlier novels, wrote much that is highly relevant to my field of psychiatry and psychotherapy—for example, that ideas, thoughts, and feelings are caused by previous experiences, that passions may be studied dispassionately, that understanding leads to transcendence—and I wished to celebrate his contributions through a novel of ideas.”

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Irvin D. Yalom, in his novel The Spinoza Problem, prologue. (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
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“Monist is, in fact, every philosophy that is not an eclectic patchwork. Therefore, I gladly admit to you that I myself consider my positions even more monist than yours, because I try to give my monism a broader extension, following as far as possible the example of the greatest of all monists: Spinoza.”

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Wilhelm Wundt, in a letter to Ernst Haeckel, September 1899 [original in German]. As quoted in Saulo de Freitas Araujo, Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology: A Reappraisal (Springer, 2015)
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