Q0333
Baruch Spinoza
A verified English rendering from the curated archive.
English
We feel and know by experience that we are eternal.
Source context
This English passage is associated with Ethics V, Prop. 23, Scholium, within the tradition of Rationalism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.
A short reading
Read in the register of eternity, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Baruch Spinoza's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?
How to cite this quotation
APA: Baruch Spinoza. (n.d.). We feel and know by experience that we are eternal. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0333
MLA: Baruch Spinoza. “We feel and know by experience that we….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0333.
Chicago: Baruch Spinoza. “We feel and know by experience that we….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0333.