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Baruch Spinoza
said
The perfection of a thing does not annul its existence, but, on the contrary, asserts it.
— Part I, Prop. XI
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
- Fame82.7
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- Fame82.7
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Lived 1632–1677, aged 45Netherlands
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Updated 2026-06-20
Excommunicated at twenty-three for ideas too dangerous for Amsterdam's synagogue, Spinoza wrote a philosophy that collapsed God into nature and stripped politics of divine authority — then published almost nothing until after he was dead.
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Born in 1632 to a Portuguese-Jewish merchant family that had fled the Inquisition for Amsterdam, Spinoza received a traditional Hebrew education before his questions about doctrine got him permanently expelled from the Jewish community in 1656. He turned to lens grinding for income and gathered a circle of followers who met to discuss the philosophy he was building in private. His Tractatus Theologico-Politicus challenged the divine origin of the Hebrew Bible and argued that religious authority had no place in a democratic state. Ethics, his major work, equated God with nature — a move read va…
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Baruch Spinoza
said
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
— Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Baruch Spinoza
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My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians.
— Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
Baruch Spinoza
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This impels me, before going into your reasons, to set forth briefly my opinion on the question, whether the world was made by chance.
— Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
Baruch Spinoza
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Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it.
— Letter to Hugo Boxel (October 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
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