Baruch Spinoza Quote

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.


Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters (ed. Hackett Publishing, 1992) - ISBN: 9781603846554


In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another...

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another...

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another...

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another...