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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
“I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids”
Ethics, Part III, Preface, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
Spinoza announces his method of treating the emotions as natural phenomena rather than as vices to be deplored.
Citation: "I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part III, Preface, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q3)
Portrait: Spinoza Ethica, Unknown, Public domain.
