“Spinoza is, for me, the prince of philosophers.”

—  Baruch Spinoza

Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (cited in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deleuze.htm#SH3b)

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