Baruch Spinoza on Wisdom
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Baruch Spinoza, catalogued under wisdom, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Baruch Spinoza, entry #210819: "He was in a certain sense the first Zionist of the last three hundred years, Through keen insight into Jewish and world history he prophesied the rebirth of the State of Israel."
Attributed to Baruch Spinoza, entry #27206: "As a student, in an hour when he was needing the help of sages, he followed Renan; Spinoza freed his mind in matters of religion; from afar came the brotherly greeting of Tolstoi."
4 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza on Wisdom
"He was in a certain sense the first Zionist of the last three hundred years, Through keen insight into Jewish and world history he prophesied the rebirth of the State of Israel."
"As a student, in an hour when he was needing the help of sages, he followed Renan; Spinoza freed his mind in matters of religion; from afar came the brotherly greeting of Tolstoi."
"It is well known that Marx was familiar with Spinoza; indeed, he hand-copied whole passages of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus into his notebooks. Less clear is the significance of this fact, and the extent of Spinoza's influence on Marx's thought."
"Can any one doubt that if the noblest saint among the Buddhists, the best Mahometan, the highest Stoic of Athens, the purest and wisest Christian, — Buddha and Menu in India, Confucius in China, Spinoza in Holland, could somewhere meet and converse, — they would all find themselves of one religion, — would find themselves denounced by their own sects, and sustained by these believed adversaries of their sects."