"A body is called finite because we always conceive another greater body. So, also, a thought is limited by another th…"

"Thought is an attribute of God, or God is a thinking thing."

"By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite — that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each ex…"

"That thing is called free, which exists solely by the necessity of its own nature, and of which the action is determi…"

"By eternity, I mean existence itself, in so far as it is conceived necessarily to follow solely from the definition o…"

"The more reality or being a thing has, the greater the number of its attributes."

"God, or substance, consisting of infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality, nece…"

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."

"By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is onl…"