Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Evil to some is always good to others

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

No two people see things the same way.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

… what is white to one person may be gray to another.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

The dark is light enough.