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„Die Ohnmacht des Menschen in Mäßigung oder Hemmung der Affekte nenne ich Knechtschaft; denn der von seinen Affekten abhängige Mensch ist nicht Herr über sich selbst, sondern dem Schicksal untertan.“

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„Denn die Bescheidenheit ist eine Art des Ehrgeizes.“

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Ethik, Buch III, "Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte", Lehrsatz 48
Original lat.: "Nam modestia species est ambitionis."
Ethik, Buch III, Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte

„Nichts geschieht in der Natur, was derselben als Schlechtigkeit zugerechnet werden kann.“

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Ethik, Buch III, "Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte", Vorwort
Original lat.: "Nihil in natura fit quod ipsius vitio possit tribui."
Ethik, Buch III, Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte

„Die Ursache, die den Aberglauben hervorbringt, erhält und ernährt, ist die Furcht.“

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„Alle Körper sind entweder in Bewegung oder in Ruhe.“

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Ethik, Buch II, "Über die Natur und den Ursprung des Geistes", Lehrsatz 13, Axiom 1
Original lat.: "Omnia corpora vel moventur vel quiescunt."
Ethik, Buch II, Über die Natur und den Ursprung des Geistes

„Wir können von der Dauer unseres Körpers nur eine höchst inadäquate Erkenntnis haben.“

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, Buch II, "Über die Natur und den Ursprung des Geistes", Lehrsatz 30
Original lat.: "Nos de duratione nostri corporis nullam nisi admodum inadæquatam cognitionem habere possumus."
Ethik, Buch II, Über die Natur und den Ursprung des Geistes

Zitate über Menschen von Baruch Spinoza

„Der freie Mensch handelt niemals arglistig, sondern stets aufrichtig.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 72
Original lat.: "Homo liber nunquam dolo malo sed semper cum fide agit."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

„Nur freie Menschen sind einander wahrhaft dankbar.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 71
Original lat.: "Soli homines liberi erga invicem gratissimi sunt."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

„Über nichts denkt der freie Mensch weniger nach als über den Tod.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 67
Original lat.: "Homo liber de nulla re minus quam de morte cogitat."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

„Überschätzung macht leicht den Menschen, der überschätzt wird, hochmütig.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 49
Original lat.: "Existimatio facile hominem qui existimatur superbum reddit."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

„Prophetie oder Offenbarung ist die von Gott den Menschen offenbarte sichere Erkenntnis einer Sache.“

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Tractatus Theologico Politicus, Buch I, Caput I
Original lat.: "Prophetia sive Revelatio est alicujus certa cognitio a Deo hominibus revelata."
Tractatus Theologico Politicus, Buch I

„Die Tugend des freien Menschen zeigt sich ebenso groß im Vermeiden wie im Überwinden von Gefahren.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 69
Original lat.: "Hominis liberi virtus æque magna cernitur in declinandis quam in superandis periculis."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

Baruch Spinoza Zitate und Sprüche

„Ehrgeiz ist unmäßige Begierde nach Ehre.“

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Ethik, Buch III, "Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte", Lehrsatz 44
Original lat.: "Ambitio est immodica gloriæ cupiditas."
Ethik, Buch III, Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte

„Der Endzweck des Staates ist […] im Grund die Freiheit.“

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Freiheit

„Verehrung ist Liebe zu jemandem, den wir bewundern.“

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Ethik, Buch III, "Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte", Definition der Affekte 10
Original lat.: "Devotio est amor erga eum quem admiramur."
Ethik, Buch III, Über den Ursprung und die Natur der Affekte

Über Liebe

„Demut ist keine Tugend, das heißt, sie entspringt nicht der Vernunft.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 53
Original lat.: "Humilitas virtus non est sive ex ratione non oritur."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

„Heiterkeit kann kein Übermaß haben, sondern ist immer gut; Melancholie dagegen ist immer schlecht.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, "Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte", Lehrsatz 42
Original lat.: "Hilaritas excessum habere nequit sed semper bona est et contra melancholia semper mala."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

„Nichts von dem, was eine falsche Idee Positives enthält, wird durch die Gegenwart des Wahren, sofern es wahr ist, aufgehoben.“

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Ethik, Vierter Teil, Über die menschliche Unfreiheit, oder die Macht der Affekte, Erster Lehrsatz, www.zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Spinoza,+Baruch+de/Ethik/4.+%C3%9Cber+die+menschliche+Unfreiheit,+oder+die+Macht+der+Affekte
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

Idee

„Es wird dem glücklichen Gemüte zugesprochen, wenn wir die ganze Lebenszeit mit einen gesunden Geist in einem gesunden Körper durchlaufen können.“

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Ethik, Buch V, "Über die Macht des Verstandes oder die menschliche Freiheit", Lehrsatz 39
Original lat.: "Id felicitati tribuitur, quod totum vitæ spatium mente sana in corpore sano percurrere potuerimus."
Ethik, Buch V, Über die Macht des Verstandes oder die menschliche Freiheit

Über Glück

„Niemand kann begehren glücklich zu sein, gut zu handeln und gut zu leben, ohne dass er zugleich begehrt, zu sein, zu handeln und zu leben, das heißt wirklich zu existieren.“

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Ethik, Buch IV, 21. Lehrsatz
Original lat.: "Nemo potest cupere beatum esse, bene agere et bene vivere, qui simul non cupiat esse, agere et viverem hoc est actu existere."
Ethik, Buch IV, Über die menschliche Knechtschaft oder die Macht der Affekte

Über Leben , Über Glück

„Unwissenheit ist kein Argument.“

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zugeschrieben von Friedrich Engels, "Anti-Dühring", Kap. IX

„Ein Gottbetrunkener Mensch“

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Über Menschen

„So leicht es ist, den Menschen jede Art des Aberglaubens einzuflößen, so schwer lässt sich dagegen erreichen, dass sie in ein und derselben Art verharren.“

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Schwester , Über Menschen

„Weil die große Menge immer gleich elend bleibt, bleibt sie nie lange demselben Aberglauben ergeben, vielmehr wird sie immer wieder von einem neuen Aberglauben angezogen, von welchem sie noch niemals getäuscht worden ist.“

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„Menschen werden nämlich nicht als Staatsbürger geboren, sondern zu ihnen erst gemacht“

Baruch Spinoza buch Tractatus politicus

Tractatus Politicus, cap. 5 § 2 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=bSMAPwr5TekC&pg=PA63&dq=geboren
Original lat.: "Homines enim civiles non nascuntur, sed fiunt." - books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=bSMAPwr5TekC&pg=PA62&dq=civiles
Tractatus Politicus

Über Menschen

„Aber alles, was vortrefflich ist, ist ebenso schwierig wie selten.“

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(Original lat.:“Sed omnia praeclara tam dificilia quam rara sunt.” – Ethica, Pars quinta, in fine
Ethik, Buch V, Über die Macht des Verstandes oder die menschliche Freiheit

„vollständig: "und so werden sie nicht ermüden, nach den Ursachen der Ursachen zu fragen, bis du zum Willen Gottes d. h. zum Asyl der Unwissenheit deine Zuflucht genommen hast."“

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bei Richard Mayr: Die philosophische Geschichtsauffassung der Neuzeit (1877), S. 173 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/diephilosophisc00mayrgoog#page/n191/mode/2up; vgl. auch Übersetzung Berthold Auerbach (1841) S. 68 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=ix4tv6MzT6sC&pg=PA68, gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/ethik-5217/4
Original lat.: "Et sic porro causarum causas rogare non cessabunt, donec ad Dei voluntantem, hoc est ignorantiae asylum, confugeris." - Ethica - Pars prima, Appendix
Ethik, Buch I, Von Gott

Über Gott , Frage , Wille

„Der Wille Gottes, Zufluchtsort der Unwissenheit (Asyl der Ignoranz) - bei Ludwig Feuerbach“

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http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009166122 zeno.org] und Karl Vorländer [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/-2429/9 gutenberg.spiegel.de
Ethik, Buch I, Von Gott

Über Gott , Wille

Baruch Spinoza: Zitate auf Englisch

“Neokantianism represents in the last analysis nothing but a certain academic line of thought, which has supplied us with a better knowledge of Kant and a useful literature of educated people. Agnosticism, on the other hand, on account of its diffusion among the people, is an actual symptom of the present condition of certain social classes. The socialists would have good grounds for believing that this symptom is one of the evidences of the decadence of the bourgeoisie. It certainly stands in marked contrast to the heroic devotion to truth shown by the thought of the precursors of modern history, such as Bruno and Spinoza, or to that conventional assertiveness, which was typical of the thinkers of the 18th century, until the classic German philosophy gradually came upon the scene.”

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Antonio Labriola, Socialism and Philosophy (1897) [original in Italian]
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“For years my mind was divided between Hegel and Spinoza. With youthful ingenuity I defended the dialectics of the former against Zeller, the founder of neo-Kantianism. The writings of Spinoza I knew by heart, and with loving understanding I gave expositions of his theory of affections and passions.”

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Antonio Labriola, Socialism and Philosophy (1897) [original in Italian]
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“The movement of modern philosophy is back towards the position of the old Ionian philosophers, but strengthened and clarified by sound scientific ideas. If I publish my criticism on Comte, I should have to re-write it as a summary of philosophical ideas from the earliest times. The thread of philosophical development is not on the lines usually laid down for it. It goes from Democritus and the rest to the Epicureans, and then the Stoics, who tried to reconcile it with popular theological ideas, just as was done by the Christian Fathers. In the Middle Ages it was entirely lost under the theological theories of the time; but reappeared with Spinoza, who, however, muddled it up with a lot of metaphysics which made him almost unintelligible.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley, in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (London: Macmillan & Co., 1913)
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“I have a great respect for the Nazarenism of Jesus — very little for later Christianity. But the only religion that appeals to me is prophetic Judaism. Add to it something from the best Stoics and something from Spinoza and something from Goethe, and there is a religion for men.”

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Thomas Henry Huxley, in his letter, 3 November 1892. Originally published in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (London: Macmillan & Co., 1913)
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“It is a pity that such a thinker as Spinoza had to leave our stage so soon. He could not live to see the enormous progress of science which would also have improved his system.”

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Johann Gottfried Herder, God, Some Conversations (1787) [original in German]
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“It is an amazing thing that our memory best retains images of great philosophers when their lives were coming to an end. Socrates raising the chalice with hemlock to his mouth, Seneca whose veins were opened by a slave (there is a painting of this by Rubens), Descartes roaming cold palace rooms with a foreboding that his role of teacher of the Swedish Queen would be his last, old Kant smelling a grated horseradish before his daily walk (the cane preceding him, sinking deeper and deeper into the sand), Spinoza consumed by tuberculosis and patiently polishing lenses, so weak he is unable to finish his Treatise on the Rainbow.”

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Zbigniew Herbert, Spinoza's Bed [original in Polish]
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“When we read Spinoza, we are seized with a feeling like that of seeing nature at its grandest in most vigorous repose: a forest of thoughts, tall as the sky, whose blooming tree-tops sway back and forth, while imperturbable trunks stand rooted in the eternal soil. There is a certain soft breeze in the writings of Spinoza which is inexplicable. It stirs the reader with the winds of the future. The spirit of the Hebrew prophets still rested perhaps on their late descendant. At the same time, there is a seriousness to him, a self-confident pride, a grandeur of thought which also seems to be an inheritance, since Spinoza belonged to one of those families of martyrs which had been expelled from Spain by those most Catholic kings.”

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Heinrich Heine, On the History of Philosophy and Religion and Other Writings [original in German]
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“Now, if instituting comparisons in both directions, we place the lowest and most ape-like men (the Austral Negroes, Bushmen, and Andamans, etc.), on the one hand, together with the most highly developed animals, for instance, with apes, dogs, and elephants, and on the other hand, with the most highly developed men—Aristotle, Newton, Spinoza, Kant, Lamarck, or Goethe—we can then no longer consider the assertion, that the mental life of the higher mammals has gradually developed up to that of man, as in any way exaggerated. If one must draw a sharp boundary between them, it has to be drawn between the most highly developed and civilized man on the one hand, and the rudest savages on the other, and the latter have to be classed with the animals.”

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Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation: Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes [2 vols.]. Translated from the German by E. Ray Lankester. (New York: D. Appleton, 1876)
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“Since I always like Zhuangzi and I am close to Tagore, I am greatly affected by the thought of pantheism. Hence, my works are close to works of the great philosopher of Europe Spinoza and poetry of German poet Goethe.”

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Guo Moruo, 1983. As quoted in Yuan Li (2016), Study of Comparative Poetic Thought of Guo Moruo's Goddess [original in Chinese]
G - L

“Can the seventeenth-century rationalist, who produced one of the most ambitious philosophical systems in the history of Western philosophy, be considered, by any stretch of interpretation, a Jewish thinker? Can he even be considered a Jew? Benedictus Spinoza is the greatest philosopher that the Jews ever produced, which adds a certain irony to his questionable Jewishness.”

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Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (New York: Schocken, 2006)
G - L

“Spinoza helps me to see myself objectively. This makes life bearable even in experiencing suffering; and with the teachings from the Ethics the world is perceived as manageable.”

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Daniel Barenboim, " The Purpose of the State is Freedom https://danielbarenboim.com/the-purpose-of-the-state-is-freedom/" (DanielBarenboim.com, December 2003)
A - F, Daniel Barenboim

“The Jewish tradition has two distinct tendencies: the more fundamental one, represented by the philosophers and poets and scholars who were interested only in Jewish issues and in the Jewish Weltanschauung; and the other tendency associated with great figures such as Spinoza or Einstein, and to a certain extent also Heinrich Heine, and which applied the traditions of Jewish thinking to other cultures, including German culture, and to other issues. It is not difficult to see how a double identity developed among Jews.”

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Daniel Barenboim, " Germans, Jews, and Music https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/03/29/germans-jews-and-music/" (The New York Review of Books, 29 March 2001)
A - F, Daniel Barenboim

“The piety of philosophers is theory, pure intuition of the divinity, calm and gay in silent solitude. Spinoza is the ideal of the species. The religious state of the poet is more passionate and more communicative.”

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Friedrich Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments (1798)
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“It is generally agreed that Spinoza fell into nominalism. But he did in any case take measures to protect himself from idealism, both in developing his theory of a substance with infinite attributes, and in arguing for the parallelism of the two attributes extension and thought.”

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Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (1976), "Is it Simple to be a Marxist in Philosophy?"
A - F, Louis Althusser

“To sum it up in a word: Marx was close to Hegel in his insistence on rejecting every philosophy of the Origin and of the Subject, whether rationalist, empiricist or transcendental; in his critique of the cogito, of the sensualist-empiricist subject and of the transcendental subject, thus in his critique of the idea of a theory of knowledge. Marx was close to Hegel in his critique of the legal subject and of the social contract, in his critique of the moral subject, in short of every philosophical ideology of the Subject, which whatever the variation involved gave classical bourgeois philosophy the means of guaranteeing its ideas, practices and goals by not simply reproducing but philosophically elaborating the notions of the dominant legal ideology. And if you consider the grouping of these critical themes, you have to admit that Marx was close to Hegel just in respect to those features which Hegel had openly borrowed from Spinoza, because all this can be found in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.”

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These deep-rooted affinities are normally passed over in pious silence; they nevertheless constitute, from Epicurus to Spinoza and Hegel, the premises of Marx's materialism. They are hardly ever mentioned, for the simple reason that Marx himself did not mention them, and so the whole of the Marx-Hegel relationship is made to hang on the dialectic, because this Marx did talk about!

Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (1976), "Is it Simple to be a Marxist in Philosophy?"
A - F, Louis Althusser

“The attention that literary artists have lavished on Spinoza is remarkable. Writers have not only shaped their aesthetics by reflection on Spinoza, have not only inserted his views into the inner lives and dialogues of their characters, but have molded the man himself into a protagonist in their novels, poems, and plays. This last aspect of the literary fascination with Spinoza is particularly noteworthy. The person of Benedictus Spinoza has drawn, over the centuries, unusual attention, and not only from literary writers.”

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Rebecca Goldstein, in her article 'Literary Spinoza,'. In: The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza, edited by Michael Della Rocca (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
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“Let no one argue against this that we are living in a different century, that much water has flowed under the bridge and that our problems are no longer the same. We are discussing living water which has not yet flowed away. We are familiar with enough historical examples, beginning with that of Spinoza, where men have worked ferociously to wall up for ever and bury deep in the earth sources which were made to quench their thirsts, but which their fear will not tolerate. For nearly a century academic philosophy has buried Marx in the earth of silence, the earth of the cemetery.”

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Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, Reading Capital (1968), Part One: From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy
A - F, Louis Althusser

“The first person ever to have posed the problem of reading, and in consequence, of writing, was Spinoza, and he was also the first in the world to have proposed both a theory of history and a philosophy of the opacity of the immediate. With him, for the first time ever, a man linked together in this way the essence of reading and the essence of history in a theory of the difference between the imaginary and the true. This explains to us why Marx could not possibly have become Marx except by founding a theory of history and a philosophy of the historical distinction between ideology and science, and why in the last analysis this foundation was consummated in the dissipation of the religious myth of reading.”

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Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, Reading Capital (1968), Part One: From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy
A - F, Louis Althusser

“I have had, for my entire life, an extraordinary esteem for the person and for the thinking of that great philosopher. But I do not believe that attitude gives me the right to say anything publically about him, for the good reason that I would have nothing to say that has not been said by others.”

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Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Siegfried Hessing. As quoted in António Damásio's Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003)
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“I confess without hesitation my dependence regarding the teachings of Spinoza. If I never cared to cite his name directly, it is because I never drew the tenets of my thinking from the study of that author but rather from the atmosphere he created.”

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Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Lothar Bickel in 1931. As quoted in Siegfried Hessing, ‘Freud et Spinoza’, in Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger, Vol. 167 No 2, 1977, p. 168; and also as quoted in António Damásio's Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003)
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“I do not have the professional knowledge to write a scholarly article about Spinoza. But what I think about this man I can express in a few words. Spinoza was the first to apply with strict consistency the idea of an all-pervasive determinism to human thought, feeling, and action. In my opinion, his point of view has not gained general acceptance by all those striving for clarity and logical rigor only because it requires not only consistency of thought, but also unusual integrity, magnamity, and — modesty.”

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Albert Einstein (1932), in Max Jammer's Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (Princeton University Press)
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“My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems.”

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Albert Einstein, Princeton, 26 April 1947
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“Goethe found such a point of view early in Spinoza, and he gladly recognizes how much the views of this great thinker have been in keeping with the needs of his youth. He found himself in him, and so he could fix himself to him in the most beautiful way.”

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Original in German: Einen solchen Standpunkt fand Goethe früh in Spinoza, und er erkennet mit Freuden, wie sehr die Ansichten dieses großen Denkers den Bedürfnissen seiner Jugend gemäß gewesen. Er fand in ihm sich selber, und so konnte er sich auch an ihm auf das schönste befestigen.
Johann Peter Eckermann, Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, 1831
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“The greatest philosophical genius Judaism has given to the world, Spinoza, is the only one of the great philosophers for whom, in reality, God is the sole subject of thought;…”

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Martin Buber, in his Heruth: On Youth and Religion (1919)
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“I think Spinoza was a complete monist. Unity is good, multiplicity cannot lead you to the truth. His political theory is in some ways like that of Hobbes. From his point of view, in politics you have to govern. In order to govern, a rational person might have to do things which are not strictly honourable. Spinoza is a surprisingly tough-minded political thinker.”

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Isaiah Berlin and Ramin Jahanbegloo, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991)
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“Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, perhaps none have more relevance today than Spinoza.”

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Steven Nadler, in article Baruch Spinoza, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (First published Jun 29, 2001; substantive revision Jul 4, 2016)
M - R, Steven Nadler

“I always carry the Ethics of Spinoza with me.”

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Original in German: Ich führe, die Ethik von Spinoza immer bei mir; er hat die Mathematik in die Ethik gebracht, so ich in die Farbenlehre, das heißt: da steht nichts im Hintersatz, was nicht im Vordersatz schon begründet ist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in a conversation with Boisserée, 3 August 1815. As quoted in Julie D. Prandi's “Dare To Be Happy!”: A Study of Goethe's Ethics (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993)
G - L, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Woe to him who in passing should hurl an insult at this gentle and pensive head. He would be punished, as all vulgar souls are punished, by his very vulgarity, and by his incapacity to conceive what is divine. This man, from his granite pedestal, will point out to all men the way of blessedness which he found; and ages hence, the cultivated traveler, passing by this spot, will say in his heart, "The truest vision ever had of God came, perhaps, here."”

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Ernest Renan, at the dedication of a statue to Spinoza in 1882, as quoted in The Story of Philosophy (1962) http://caute.net.ru/spinoza/aln/durant.htm by Will Durant
M - R, Friedrich Nietzsche

“Lovingly facing the “one is everything”
amor dei, happy from comprehension—
Take off your shoes! That three times holy land—
—Yet secretly beneath this love, devouring,
A fire of revenge was shimmering,
The Jewish God devoured by Jewish hatred . . .
Hermit! Have I recognized you?”

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Friedrich Nietzsche, in his poem To Spinoza. Translated from the German by Yirmiyahu Yovel, in his book Spinoza and Other Heretics, Vol. 2: The Adventures of Immanence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), p. 132. Original published in Nietzsche, Werke (Leipzig: Kröner, 1919)
M - R, Friedrich Nietzsche