Logo
Quote by Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. – Baruch Spinoza

Other quotes by Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

Category:
Music
Author
Baruch Spinoza
Read Quote

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza

Category:
Nature
Author
Baruch Spinoza
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
alone
category

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. – Slavoj Zizek

Category:
alone

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And its O.K., but its of no account. – V. S. Naipaul

Category:
alone

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. – William O. Douglas

Category:
alone

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
alone

Random Quotes

Attack is the best form of defense. – Proverb

Category:
Security

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things. – Dionne Warwick

Category:
amazing

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Age

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. – Jean Piaget

Category:
Knowledge