Baruch Spinoza Quotes

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

In the depths all becomes law.

Nature itself cannot err

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

And nature must obey necessity.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Things always work according to their nature.

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.