Do you remember Goethe's wise words about reading Spinoza? - "I always preferred knowing what an author himself said, to knowing what others thought he ought to have said.”. (Baruch Spinoza)

Do you remember Goethe's wise words about reading Spinoza? - "I always preferred knowing what an author himself said, to knowing what others thought he ought to have said.”.

Baruch Spinoza

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