Baruch Spinoza Body Quotations

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.