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Spinoza's ideas were controversial in their time. He is quoted as saying, "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace."Spinoza = Dutch philosopher of the early Enlightenment (1632-1677)
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Spinoza belonged to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, but he was excommunicated for heresy.† (source)
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Admittedly, history's list of famous Rosicrucians was a who's who of European Renaissance luminaries: Paracelsus, Bacon, Fludd, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz.† (source)
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Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza.† (source)
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In the arts and letters, it was the age of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, and van Ruysdael; of the poet Joost van den Vondel, of Grotius in theology and maritime law, Spinoza in philosophy.† (source)
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Finally, at the age of twenty-five, he abandoned his wife and child and after many hardships came to Berlin where he joined a group of philosophers, read Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant, and began to write philosophical books, it is astonishing how he was able to gobble up complicated philosophical treatises with such ease.† (source)
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Second only to the Word of God, he believed the word of Spinoza.† (source)Spinoza = Dutch philosopher of the early Enlightenment (1632-1677)
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Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (composer), Baruch Spinoza (philosopher), Mendoza (pugilist), Ferdinand Lassalle (reformer, duellist).† (source)
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He droned on insultingly, invoking Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dale Carnegie, Spinoza, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud.† (source)
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There was a careless office of old equipment, and he sat in rolled sleeves and smoked cigars at a desk where my book-accustomed eyes spotted a Spinoza and a Hegel and other things odd for a doctor, and especially one in his line.† (source)
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All that he had read in books, all the tranquil wisdom he had professed so glibly in his philosophy course, and the great names of Plato and Plotinus, of Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, of Hegel and Descartes, left him now, under the mastering surge of his wild Celtic superstition.† (source)
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He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of pleasure on his lips.† (source)
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Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?† (source)
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Bene agere et loetari—to do good cheerfully—which he had heard to be the philosophy of one Spinoza, might be his own even now.† (source)
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Of late in Moscow and in the country, since he had become convinced that he would find no solution in the materialists, he had read and re-read thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non-materialistic explanation of life.† (source)
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This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.† (source)
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