Spinoza; a Handbook to the Ethics |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolutely infinite according action adequate cause arising Attri Attribute of Extension Attribute of Thought body conceived concomitant idea consciousness constitutes contemplation course definition desire divine Attributes divine nature divine Substance endless series essence essential Ethics everything evil evolution exceptional object existence experience external cause fear feeling final causes finite mode follows freedom Grief hate hatred Henotheism human bondage human mind ideal illustration impulse inadequate ideas inevitable infinite Attributes infinite series infinite Thought influence instance intellectual love kind of knowledge man's Master means mental affections modes of thought monotheism moral Natura Naturans necessity ness notion object ourselves Pantheism passion passive perfect possible Prop proportion propositions purpose realisation reality Reason recognise regard religion Robert Elsmere Schol Scholium sense Sir Frederick Pollock Socrates Spinoza Spinoza's doctrine spiritual spontaneity teaching theory tion true truth understand Universe virtue whole word
Popular passages
Page 34 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Page 145 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Page 34 - O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 55 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I:' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 84 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 224 - God, in so far as he loves himself, loves man, and, consequently, that the love of God towards men, and the intellectual love of the mind towards God are identical.
Page 197 - How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with all. They haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory like a cloudless air, The conscience as a sea at rest: But when the heart is full of din, And doubt beside the portal waits, They can but...
Page 192 - An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.
Page 94 - By the strength of my hand have I done it, and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent...