There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.Lord Byron
“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Philosopher · 1632 – 1677
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent who ground lenses for a living while writing works that reshaped philosophy. Expelled from his synagogue for his views, he argued in the Ethics for a rational, pantheistic understanding of God and nature.
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