32. Baruch Spinoza

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.”

• Born: November 24, 1632, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Died: February 21, 1677, The Hague, Netherlands
• Influenced: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Friedrich Nietzsche
• Influenced by: René Descartes, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes