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title: "62 Spinoza Quotes by 48 authors"
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> [“Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurent-binet/spinoza-fucks-hegel-up-the-arse-spinoza-fucks-hegel-up-the-arse-down/)

[Laurent Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurent-binet/)

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> [“Spinoza said that we dream with our eyes open. We trick ourselves into believing we have free will, but free will is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anni-taylor/spinoza-said-that-we-dream-with-our-eyes-open-we-trick-ourselves-into/)

[Anni Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anni-taylor/)

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> [“No matter how thin you slice the bread, there will always be two sides.” ― Baruch Spinoza.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-troia/no-matter-how-thin-you-slice-the-bread-there-will-always-be-two-sides/)

[Anton Troia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-troia/)

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> [When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/when-maimonides-says-that-the-messiah-will-come-but-that-he-may-tarry/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“Spinoza offers philosophers a new model: the body. He pro­ poses to establish the body as a model: "We do not know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/spinoza-offers-philosophers-a-new-model-the-body-he-pro-poses-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/dostoevsky-s-nature-was-two-fold-like-spinoza-s-and-like-that-of/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

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> [No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/no-society-has-gone-the-way-of-gulags-or-concentration-camps-by/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lion-feuchtwanger/i-have-sincerely-tried-not-to-deride-the-action-of-men-not-to-lament/)

[Lion Feuchtwanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lion-feuchtwanger/)

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> [“To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/to-the-mass-of-mankind-therefore-the-philosopher-may-appear-as-a/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-d-brandeis/when-those-of-jewish-blood-exhibit-moral-or-intellectual-superiority/)

[Louis D. Brandeis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-d-brandeis/)

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> [I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-can-understand-your-aversion-to-the-use-of-the-term-religion-to/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-believe-in-spinoza-s-god-who-reveals-himself-in-the-lawful-harmony/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“In 1921, a New York rabbi asked Einstein if he believed in God. "I believe in Spinoza's God," he answered, "who reveals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-holt/in-1921-a-new-york-rabbi-asked-einstein-if-he-believed-in-god-i/)

[Jim Holt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-holt/)

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> [“Both I and my troubles became the object of an interesting psychoscientific study undertaken by myself. What does Spinoza say in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/both-i-and-my-troubles-became-the-object-of-an-interesting/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelby-d-hunt/consistent-with-the-liberal-views-of-the-enlightenment-leibniz-was-an/)

Shelby D. Hunt

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> [ the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. \[He\] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic-irregular-fragmentary-he/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [“The title for this story comes from the Dutch philosopher Spinoza, who gave Part IV of his work Ethics the title Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-somerset-maugham/the-title-for-this-story-comes-from-the-dutch-philosopher-spinoza-who/)

[William Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-somerset-maugham/)

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> [Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/spinoza-for-example-thought-that-insight-into-the-essence-of-reality/)

[Max Horkheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-horkheimer/)

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> [Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/malebranche-teaches-that-we-see-all-things-in-god-himself-this-is/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-esslin/the-theatre-of-the-absurd-has-renounced-arguing-about-the-absurdity/)

[Martin Esslin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-esslin/)

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> [“n h i s view, a l l the ways of humi l iat ing a n d breaking l ife, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/n-h-i-s-view-a-l-l-the-ways-of-humi-l-iat-ing-a-n-d-breaking-l-ife-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-hardt/through-luminous-and-erudite-readings-of-the-texts-hasana-sharp-shows/)

[Michael Hardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-hardt/)

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> [“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-d-yalom/exactly-we-know-that-the-great-goethe-carried-a-copy-of-spinoza-s/)

[Irvin D. Yalom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-d-yalom/)

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> [ The impersonal aspect \[of God\] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sivananda/the-impersonal-aspect-of-god-nirakara-nirguna-is-called-brahman-or/)

[Sivananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sivananda/)

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> [“And, like Buddha, Spinoza is often dismissed as a mere seeker of tranquillity – but what he valued most was joy, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-foley/and-like-buddha-spinoza-is-often-dismissed-as-a-mere-seeker-of/)

[Michael Foley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-foley/)

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> [“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/why-should-we-place-christ-at-the-top-and-summit-of-the-human-race/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-henry-huxley/with-the-growth-of-civilisation-in-europe-and-with-the-revival-of/)

[Thomas Henry Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-henry-huxley/)

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> [“On the other hand it is probably safe to assume that Rembrandt and Spinoza surely would have at least passed on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-markson/on-the-other-hand-it-is-probably-safe-to-assume-that-rembrandt-and/)

[David Markson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-markson/)

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> [“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/so-i-close-this-long-reflection-on-what-i-hope-is-a-not-too/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“Spinoza’s (1632—1677) Ethics starts with a clear framework, explanation, and definition of his terms. In that way, the philosophical inquiry becomes more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dejan-stojanovic/spinoza-s-1632-1677-ethics-starts-with-a-clear-framework-explanation/)

[Dejan Stojanovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dejan-stojanovic/)

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> [The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moses-hess/the-messianic-era-is-the-present-age-which-began-to-germinate-with/)

[Moses Hess](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moses-hess/)

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> [“Consistency is the virtue of small minds, and Spinoza had a great mind—he was inconsistent all over the place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-holt/consistency-is-the-virtue-of-small-minds-and-spinoza-had-a-great-mind/)

[Jim Holt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-holt/)

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> [“Spinoza compares the feeling of free will to a stone’s thinking, as it travels through space, that it determines its own trajectory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/spinoza-compares-the-feeling-of-free-will-to-a-stone-s-thinking-as-it/)

[Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/)

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> [“Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-bellow/now-the-first-requirement-of-stability-in-a-human-being-was-that-the/)

[Saul Bellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-bellow/)

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> [I can't find this quote in Spinoza's writings. Do you have a cite? If you want the present to be different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/i-can-t-find-this-quote-in-spinoza-s-writings-do-you-have-a-cite-if/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [“And I hold with Spinoza (I hope he won’t mind) that to demand what is impossible for any human being, to exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-bellow/and-i-hold-with-spinoza-i-hope-he-won-t-mind-that-to-demand-what-is/)

[Saul Bellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-bellow/)

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> [“Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/put-even-a-fool-in-front-of-the-window-and-you-ll-get-a-spinoza-in/)

[Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/)

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> [“Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-greenberg/spinoza-spoke-of-vitality-as-the-purest-virtue-the-only-virtue-the/)

[Michael Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-greenberg/)

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> [I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-agree-with-your-remark-about-loving-your-enemy-as-far-as-actions/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/if-this-conviction-had-not-been-a-strongly-emotional-one-and-if-those/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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                        "text": "Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for this universe. For him, ethical conduct is entirely determined by such insight into nature, just as our devotion to a person may be determined by insight into his greatness or genius. Fears and petty passions, alien to the great love of the universe, which is logos itself, will vanish, according to Spinoza, once our understanding of reality is deep enough.",
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                        "text": "Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.",
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                        "text": "The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience.",
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                        "text": "“n h i s view, a l l the ways of humi l iat ing a n d breaking l ife, a l l the forms of the negative have two sources, one turned outward and the other inward, resentment and bad conscience, hatred and gu,l t . \"The two archenemies of the human race, Hatred and Re­ morse. \" 10 He denounces these sources again and again as being linked to man ' s consciousness, as being inexhaustible until there is a new consciousness, a new vision, a new appetite for l iving. Spinoza feels , experiences, that he is eternal”",
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                        "text": "Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.",
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                        "text": "“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And not only Goethe but many other great Germans. Lessing and Heine reported a clarity and calmness that came from reading this book. Who knows, there may come a time in your life when you, too, will need the calmness and clarity that Spinoza’s Ethics offers. I shan’t ask you to read that book now. You’re too young to grasp its meaning. But I want you to promise that before your twenty-first birthday you will read it. Or perhaps I should say, read it by the time you’re fully grown. Do I have your word as a good German?”",
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                        "text": "The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.",
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                        "text": "“And, like Buddha, Spinoza is often dismissed as a mere seeker of tranquillity – but what he valued most was joy, which he defined as a sense of empowerment created by the understanding mind. But, again as in the teachings of Buddha, understanding is not a passive, final state, but a process requiring ceaseless effort. In another insight prefiguring neurobiology, which defines living organisms as systems for optimizing life conditions, Spinoza suggested that our very nature is to strive. His Latin word for human nature, conatus, means ‘striving’ or ‘endeavour’: ‘The striving by which each thing attempts to persevere in its being is nothing other than the actual essence of the thing.’ And the striving has to be difficult to be valuable: ‘If salvation were readily available and could be attained without great effort, how could it be neglected by almost everyone? All that is excellent is as difficult to attain as it is rare.”",
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                        "text": "“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates ? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus ? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus ? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster ? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze , more universal than Confucius ? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno ? Did he express grander truths than Cicero ? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza ’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler ’s or Newton ’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno ? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare , the greatest of the human race?”",
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                        "text": "“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical and intellectual criticism of theology once more recommenced, and arrived at a temporary resting-place in the confessions of the various reformed Protestant sects in the sixteenth century; almost all of which, as soon as they were strong enough, began to persecute those who carried criticism beyond their own limit. But the movement was not arrested by these ecclesiastical barriers, as their constructors fondly imagined it would be; it was continued, tacitly or openly, by Galileo , by Hobbes , by Descartes , and especially by Spinoza , in the seventeenth century; by the English Freethinkers, by Rousseau , by the French Encyclopaedists , and by the German Rationalists, among whom Lessing stands out a head and shoulders taller than the rest, throughout the eighteenth century; by the historians, the philologers, the Biblical critics, the geologists, and the biologists in the nineteenth century, until it is obvious to all who can see that the moral sense and the really scientific method of seeking for truth are once more predominating over false science. Once more ethics and theology are parting company.”",
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                        "text": "“On the other hand it is probably safe to assume that Rembrandt and Spinoza surely would have at least passed on the street, now and again. Or even run into each other quite frequently, if only at some neighborhood shop or other. And certainly they would have exchanged amenities as well, after a time. Good morning, Rembrandt. Good morning to you, Spinoza. I was extremely sorry to hear about your bankruptcy, Rembrandt. I was extremely sorry to hear about your excommunication, Spinoza. Do have a good day, Rembrandt. Do have the same, Spinoza. All of this would have been said in Dutch, incidentally. I mention that simply because it is known that Rembrandt did not speak any other language except Dutch. Even if Spinoza may have preferred Latin. Or Jewish.”",
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                        "text": "“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist , who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn’s conversion certificate. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Navasky's front room, with David Rieff and Steve Wasserman as my best of men.) I wanted to do something to acknowledge, and to knit up, the broken continuity between me and my German-Polish forebears. When I am traveling, I will stop at the shul if it is in a country where Jews are under threat, or dying out, or were once persecuted. This has taken me down queer and sad little side streets in Morocco and Tunisia and Eritrea and India, and in Damascus and Budapest and Prague and Istanbul, more than once to temples that have recently been desecrated by the new breed of racist Islamic gangster. (I have also had quite serious discussions, with Iraqi Kurdish friends, about the possibility of Jews genuinely returning in friendship to the places in northern Iraq from which they were once expelled.) I hate the idea that the dispossession of one people should be held hostage to the victimhood of another, as it is in the Middle East and as it was in Eastern Europe. But I find myself somehow assuming that Jewishness and 'normality' are in some profound way noncompatible. The most gracious thing said to me when I discovered my family secret was by Martin, who after a long evening of ironic reflection said quite simply: 'Hitch, I find that I am a little envious of you.' I choose to think that this proved, once again, his appreciation for the nuances of risk, uncertainty, ambivalence, and ambiguity. These happen to be the very things that 'security' and 'normality,' rather like the fantasy of salvation, cannot purchase.”",
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