Spinoza really was one of the greats; as Hegel said, "You are either a Spinozist, or not a philosopher at all!"; one of my favourite bits of Spinoza (who I thin

Spinoza really was one of the greats; as Hegel said, "You are either a Spinozist, or not a philosopher at all!"; one of my favourite bits of Spinoza (who I think Frederick Lordon for pointing out) was this: "Men are deceived in thinking themselves free, a belief that consists only in this, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined."