Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
Baruch SpinozaIf men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch SpinozaHe who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
Baruch SpinozaAnyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.
Baruch Spinoza