"[Spinoza] — the deepest, most original thinker to emerge from our people from the end of the Bible to the birth of Einstein."
— Baruch Spinoza

January 1, 1970

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David Ben-Gurion. As quoted in Daniel B. Schwartz (2011), An Icon for Iconoclasts: Spinoza and the Faith of Jewish Secularism (The Secular Issue, Association for Jewish Studies)