A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
Homo liber de nulla re minus quam de morte cogitat; et eius sapientia non mortis sed vitae meditatio est.
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Benedictus de Spinoza
Born in Amsterdam in 1632, Baruch de Spinoza was a heretical philosopher who was excommunicated from the Jewish community and earned his living grinding lenses. In his masterwork Ethics, he used the geometric method to demonstrate the identity of God and Nature, establishing himself — alongside Descartes and Leibniz — as one of the pillars of early-modern rationalism. His pantheistic worldview deeply impressed thinkers from Goethe to Einstein and quietly shaped the currents of modern thought.
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