“"Spinoza did not seek to found a sect, and he founded none"; yet all philosophy after him is permeated with his thought.”

—  Baruch Spinoza

Will Durant, beginning with a quote of Sir Frederick Pollock in Life and Philosophy of Spinoza (1899)
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