“The world would be happier
if men had the same capacity to be silent
that they have to speak.”
~ Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin.By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe,he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy…Source
