#spinozaism

[cosmonautroger]

[decompinprocess]

And so, my obsessions collide.

[philosophybits]

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza, On the Improvement of the Understanding

[ahjong]

LENZ OF SPINOZA (1989) dir. Jun Kurosawa

[cinematic-literature]

Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos

Book title: Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata in Latin; 1677) by Baruch Spinoza

[philosophors]

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

— Baruch Spinoza

[sluttyhaecceities]

"That is why the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: "More taxes! Less bread!"? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves? Reich is at his profoundest as a thinker when he refuses to accept ignorance or illusion on the part of the masses as an explanation of fascism, and demands an explanation that will take their desires into account, an explanation formulated in terms of desire: no, the masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for."

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Page 29)

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“We feel and know that we are eternal.” - Baruch Spinoza

[venusimleder]

Vogue Italia, February 2000.

Ph. Antonio Spinoza

[xaliboo]

franz von stuck - lucifer, 1890

[ma-pi-ma]

L'amore è il mezzo attraverso il quale l'uomo può elevarsi al sommo bene.

Baruch Spinoza, Breve trattato su Dio, l’uomo e il suo bene

[philosophybits]

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[girl-debord]

"[...] I do not know why matter should be unworthy of the divine nature, since there can be no substance external to God by which it can be acted upon. All things, I repeat, are in God, and all things that come to pass do so only through the laws of God's infinite nature and follow from the necessity of his essence."

- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

[kirlisiyah]

"Adem ile Havva'yı şeytan aldattı diyebilirler, iyi ama şeytanı kim aldattı?"

[yorgunherakles]

vicdanın gözlerinden yaş getirdi, ama asla gerektiği şekilde seni değiştirmeye yetmedi.

petrarca - dünyanın anlamsızlığı üzerine

[sunnyscollegelife]

24 september 2023

my first ever university assignment :D (I have no clue what’s going on Spinoza is confusing me)

I’m sick rn but hopefully I’ll be better in time for my first actual classes next week!!