Baruch Spinoza Emotion Quotations

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.