Baruch Spinoza on God
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“God and all attributes of God are eternal.”
“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
“Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.”
“Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.”
“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite — that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality. Explanation — I say absolutely infinite, not infinite after its kind: for, of a thing infinite only after its kind, infinite attributes may be denied; but that which is absolutely infinite, contains in its essence whatever expresses reality, and involves no negation.”