Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. B
  4. Baruch Spinoza
  5. Pain

Baruch Spinoza Quotes about Pain

All Baruch Spinoza Quotes Aids Atheism Communication Desire Doubt Effort Envy Ethics Evil Fame Fighting Giving God Gratitude Happiness Hate Hatred Honor Hope Human Nature Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Justice Liberty Life Love Lust Mankind Nature Obedience Pain quotes Pantheism Passion Past Perfection Philosophy Piety Pleasure Pride Reality Religion Science Truth Understanding Virtue War Wisdom
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

Baruch Spinoza
Pain, Love Is, Ideas
Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

Baruch Spinoza
Life, Pain, Hate
Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.108, Commodius Vicus

From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

Baruch Spinoza
Life, Pain, Hate
Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

You May Also Like: