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[Anonymous No.12298978]

Was he right?

[Anonymous No.12299028]

Lovingly facing the “one is everything”
amor dei, happy from comprehension—
Take off your shoes! That three times holy land—
—Yet secretly beneath this love, devouring,
A fire of revenge was shimmering,
The Jewish God devoured by Jewish hatred . . .
Hermit! Have I recognized you?

I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza : that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by "instinct". Not only is his overtendency like mine — namely, to make all knowledge the most powerful affect — but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself ; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters : he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness. Strange!

[Anonymous No.12299031]

spinoza is based

[Anonymous No.12299037]

>>12299031
he is definitely the most wholesome philosopher.

[Anonymous No.12299238]

Absolutely. It's such a shame that he has such a small audience (containing Goethe and Einstein, nonetheless). I'm convinced that if the world really understood Spinoza, we would have heaven on Earth.

[Anonymous No.12299247]

>>12299028
>How much timidity and personal vulnerability does this masquerade of a sickly recluse betray!
Has anyone ever projected harder than Nietzsche when he wrote this?

[Anonymous No.12299249]

>>12299037
>reifies ”God” into immanence, killing him
>wholesome

[Anonymous No.12299275]

>>12299028
>he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil.
Based.