Who is Baruch Spinoza

Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. One of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered "one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period." Inspired by the groundbreaking ideas of René Descartes, Spinoza became a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age. Spinoza's given name, which means "Blessed", varies among different languages. In Hebrew, his full name is written ברוך שפינוזה‎. "In most of the documents and records contemporary with Spinoza's y...
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Baruch Spinoza Quotes

• He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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• Welfordwrites: if you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. baruch spinoza

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