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Full Idea
I define God as a being consisting in infinite attributes, whereof each is infinite or supremely perfect.
Gist of Idea
God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (Letters to Oldenburg [1665], 1661)
Book Ref
Spinoza,Benedict de: 'Ethics, Improvement of Understanding, Letters', ed/tr. Elwes,R [Dover 1955], p.277
A Reaction
This seems to me the glorious culmination of the hyperbolic conception of God that expands steadily from wood spirits through Zeus, to eventually mop up everything in nature, and then everything that can be imagined beyond nature. All very silly.
| 4866 | God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza] |
| 4867 | Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza] |
| 4868 | Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza] |