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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
“But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases”
Ethics, Part IV, Prop. XLIV, Note, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
Spinoza argues that fixation on a single object, tolerated in misers and the ambitious, is structurally the same as delirium.
Citation: "But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV, Prop. XLIV, Note, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q9)
Portrait: Spinoza Ethica, Unknown, Public domain.
