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“So, Spinoza went off, not as a victim or a pariah but as an independent Portuguese person living in Amsterdam. In so doing, he became one of the first people to live outside of any religious affiliation.”
― Spinoza
― Spinoza
“Spinoza was introduced to the Quaker leader in the Netherlands, William Ames, and was described by Peter Serrarius as a “Jew who by the Jews hath been cast out.”
― Spinoza
― Spinoza
“One person was excommunicated for buying a kosher chicken from an Ashkenazi butcher rather than a Sephardic one.”
― Spinoza
― Spinoza
